num_pages: 72
description: Maria enters her family in the big float competition that is part of the annual village Christmas celebration, an event usually participated in only by wealthy ranchers and never by poor Mexican-American families like Maria's. Reprint.
language: English
title: Maria, a Christmas Story
titlecomplete: Maria, a Christmas Story
genres: Christmas, Middle Grade, Young Adult
ratings_count: 34
publisher: Avon Camelot