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The Christmas Mystery

  • 1996 first published
  • 192 pages
  • 19 editions

Jostein Gaarder, Elizabeth Rokkan and Rosemary Wells's The Christmas Mystery (1996) is a time-travel fiction novel. Key subjects include Advent, Nativity, christmas and time travel.

15 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 19 editions.

It runs to roughly 192 pages — 3–4 hours of reading at an average pace.

About The Christmas Mystery

Joachim discovers a magic Advent calendar which contains the story of a little girl who traveled through time to be present at the birth of Jesus.
Description from Open Library

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Subjects

  • Advent
  • Nativity
  • Christmas
  • Time travel
  • Jesus christ
  • Mystery and detective stories
  • Children's fiction
  • Christmas stories
  • Mystery & detective

Publisher

Quick answers

Who wrote The Christmas Mystery?

The Christmas Mystery was written by Jostein Gaarder, Elizabeth Rokkan and Rosemary Wells and first published in 1996.

What genre is The Christmas Mystery?

It is usually shelved as Time Travel.

How long is The Christmas Mystery?

The median edition has 192 pages, about 3–4 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to The Christmas Mystery?

Readers who like it often enjoy Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, The Merchant of Death (Pendragon #1) and The Invisible Man.

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