Miracle on Christmas Street by Annie O’Neil

As soon as Jess Green arrives at her new home, 14 Christmas Street, she knows this will be no ordinary December. The residents of this little road have come together to create something extraordinary: a real-life advent calendar, where one house will open its door each day until Christmas for a festive celebration. Each day, that is, except Christmas Eve. It should be the loveliest moment of all, but no one can persuade the octogenarian Mr Winters at Number 24 to be involved.

As gingerbread houses are iced, impromptu carol concerts sung on doorsteps, and mulled wine passed from front windows, the community begins to come alive – and Jess begins a tentative friendship with the frosty Mr Winters. Can the Christmas magic thaw even the hardest of hearts?

And when disaster strikes on Christmas Eve, the residents of Christmas Street are going to need a miracle of their own…