TY - BOOK AU - VanLiere, Donna, TI - The Christmas star SN - 9781250163905 AV - PS3622.A66 C482 2018 U1 - 813/.6 23 PY - 2018///. CY - New York : PB - St. Martin's Press, KW - Volunteers KW - Fiction KW - Girls KW - Foster children KW - Mate selection KW - School children KW - Matchmakers KW - Christmas KW - Religious fiction KW - Love stories KW - gsafd KW - Christmas fiction KW - lcgft KW - Romance fiction N2 - Thirty-two-year-old Amy Denison volunteers at Glory's Place, an after school program where she meets seven-year-old Maddie, a precocious young girl who has spent her childhood in foster care. Unbeknownst to Amy, Maddie is a mini-matchmaker, with her eye on just the right man for Amy at Grandon Elementary School, where she is a student. Amy is hesitant - she's been hurt before, and isn't sure she's ready to lose her heart again - but an unexpected surprise makes her reconsider her lonely lifestyle. As Christmas nears and the town is blanketed in snow and beautiful decorations, Maddie and the charming staff at Glory's Place help Amy to see that romance can be more than heartache and broken promises ER -