Tabitha's Travels: A Family Story for Advent

Title: Tabitha’s Travels: A Family Story for Advent

Author: Arnold Ytreeide

Grade Level: 5&6th reading level, but a wonderful Family read-aloud

Tabitha’s Travels is a wonderfully unique book! This book is the story of Advent or the forty days before Christmas. Follow Tabitha as she travels through events leading up to Jesus being born into the world. This is a fictional story, but brings historical realism to the story of Christmas. Tabitha is a shepherd and her father decides that they will return to the town where he was born. Throughout the journey, they must look for Jotham, a boy who accidentally joined a very dangerous caravan of men. Then her father is arrested, can Tabitha continue the search for Jotham and the Messiah?