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Fancy Amish Smicksburg Tale
Series · 3 books · 2014-2017

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Love Came Down At Christmas 1

2014

Twelve year old Lexi Remington has a Christmas to get out of foster care and be adopted. She gets it into her head that she can take the place of Matthew Yoder, her shunned Amish neighbor, and be part of the huge Yoder clan. A stray white dog, fixing a manger set with her foster dad, and a homeless man all show Lexi an important lesson about the love of God...which prepares her heart for the biggest Christmas surprise ever.
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#2

Love Came Down at Christmas 2

2016

Can the love of God that came down at Christmas heal all? Cure all? Lexi believes this with all her heart. Lexi Remington, the twelve-year-old foster child readers worldwide adored in Love Came Down at Christmas, received a new name: Lexi Stotler. Yes, her Christmas wish to be adopted came true. Now, at thirteen, her Christmas wish is to see Mr. Fraudburg be transformed like Mr. Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. So, Lexi brings a stray dog to Mr. Fraudburg. After all, don’t dogs calm a soul down? His son, Adam, asks little of his father, but instantly loves this dog…and asks, pleads, to keep him. The more Adam pushes to keep the dog, Mr. Fraudburg becomes more miserly and despicable. He knows he needs help when his wife, son, and church members shy away from him. But Lexi sees through his tough, rough exterior. She was like that once, too. Lexi enlists the aid of Emma Yoder, an elderly Amish woman. Emma still helps Lexi let love in, and surely she can do the same for Mr. Fraudburg. By Christmas Day, Lexi wonders if her obsession with A Christmas Carol is being played out right before her. Not in Victorian England, but Smicksburg, Pennsylvania.
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Love Came Down At Christmas 3

2017

Fourteen-year-old Lexi needs a Christmas miracle, again. Her grandma, Gloria, now a widow, comes to live with the Stotlers and brings a luggage full of dark secrets. Literally. Last Christmas, Lexi and Emma Yoder cracked open Elliot Fraudburg, but even they think Gloria is a nut too hard to crack. Angela is unraveled by her mother's mysterious past and is in counseling. Lexi turns to ‘Amish Santa’, a jolly man with a white beard, children mistakenly call Santa. He just bellows out, “Ho! Ho! Ho!” Noah Weaver knows some of these children won’t get presents this year since the closing of the coal mine. He makes two-hundred Christmas presents, asking Gloria to help. But even he wonders if all things are possible with God after being around, ‘That woman!’ Will Lexi get her miracle? Will her grouchy grandma lighten up before Light Up Night? The regulars from Love Came Down At Christmas 1 & 2 are in this 3rd book. Can be read as a standalone. Based on true stories, Karen Anna Vogel aims to entertain while sharing yet more inspiration from Amish friends. Amish cookie recipes included along with Christmas ideas to wrap presents simply, the story of Saint Nicholas Day, celebrated on December sixth, how the Amish celebrate Christmas and more.

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