The Search for Christmas

ISBN: 1480193356

Author: Ryan, Rachel M

Condition: New

Product Description Mack is a genius. She may only be fourteen years old, but she is a genius nonetheless. Nothing can stifle her creativity, not even the dismal time she lives in. Whereas others walk around with no hope and no joy, Mack believes there is something more. This is confirmed when she gets her latest invention, a time machine, working and travels to a time where she witnesses people who are happy to be alive and even happier that it is Christmas! Mack convinces her friends to help her on her journey to find Christmas. The group travels through space and time, picking up Santa Claus and Ebenezer Scrooge along the way. With each stop, the meaning of Christmas becomes clearer to the travelers and the urgency to bring that message home more pressing. Of course, time travel can be tricky especially with the betrayal of a desperate friend looming. Will Mack and her friends ever make it home to save the people of their time? What will become of their search for Christmas? About the Author Rachel Ryan is a Certified Teacher of English in the state of New Jersey with 12 years classroom experience. She also has a lifetime of acting experience coupled with 18 years of directorial experience in Community and High School Theaters. In her free time she has authored quite a few short scenes and monologues and has tried her hand at several full length plays. She has seen quite a few of them take the stage, including the stage version of The Search for Christmas, originally a musical she co-wrote with her father. Russ Scalzo has written too many songs to count throughout his lifetime, including "I Know Why," a song that landed him and his band, The Hallmarks, a recording deal with Mercury Records in the 1960s. Since then he has penned hundreds of songs, including the ones heard in the musical version of The Search for Christmas. Russ is a self-taught musician and writer drawing from a lifetime of experience. As a father/daughter team, they have written four original musicals together and have seen them all take the stage with Lighthouse Productions, a theater company they co-founded. Over the past few years, Lighthouse has grown and is now a non-profit organization with a board of directors and an enthusiastic group of actors, musicians and technicians. It is through Lighthouse that the story of The Search for Christmas first debuted and was so well received by audience members of varying backgrounds. Each December it takes the stage and it is the excitement and buzz surrounding this story that prompted Ryan and Scalzo to scribe it into a novel.