Christmas on Mill Street: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

Take A Christmas Story and combine in The Sandlot and you will get Joseph Walker’s charming vacation novel-Christmas on Mill Street.

It’s 1962, and young Sam Andrews just moved to Utah from Arizona. A tall, obese, semi-clumsy outsider, he’s still trying to squeeze in with the neighborhood boys. When conversation about sledding down the infamous Mill Street begins, Sam pipes in and says he’ll do it. The problem is, Sam has only seen snow in pictures and has never actually ridden a sled. Also to top it all off, Mill Road is virtually a vertical drop with two fatal curves. A rider heading too fast would shoot right off Mill Street and into the Kimballs’ thorn-filled pyracantha bushes. But there is no turning back now.

Listeners will chuckle out loud at the adventures and several poignant lessons leading up to Christmas Day time and Sam’s eventual duel with Mill Road. Christmas on Mill Street is a wonderful and inspirational family gift for the vacation season.

“Enthusiasts of Jean Shepherd’s A Xmas Story will love this brief read.”-Library Journal