Grateful Peter's New Year's Gift

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. On a bitter New Year's Eve, twelve-year-old Peter Grant battles snow, hunger, and poverty to sell baked potatoes, clinging to life after losing both parents and growing up under the rough care of old Sally Graham. A chance meeting with a white-haired gentleman, Dr. Turner, gives Peter a sixpence, a rebuke for Sunday labor, and a seed of faith that quietly changes his conscience and his future. Peter's kindness is immediate and unmistakable: he spends the money on tea, sugar, and food for Sally, then later saves to buy her a comforter, even as he dreams of a better coat and a better life. When a cab knocks him down, Peter is carried to the hospital with a broken leg and bruised face, but his first thoughts are still for Sally. There, unexpected tenderness from nurses, Mr. Russell, and Dr. Turner begins to soften the hard edges of his world. Alice Russell's reading of The Old, Old Story awakens in him a hunger for Scripture, and her patient teaching opens the Bible to him, page by page, until Christ's life and meaning become personal. As Peter heals, he is offered not only medical care and comfort, but education, beauty, and a new life beyond Back Potter Street.