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Nine-year-old Meggie resents spending time with a strange, smelly old man who calls her mother whenever he needs a ride, but when Christmas finds him in the hospital she knows what she must do.
Jane Buchanan ; pictures by Leslie Bowman.
Booklist Editors'Choice Books for Youth, 2003.