Aidan Baker - Gathering Blue

Gathering Blue Novel Units® Teacher Guide Novel Study

This Blue Christmas gathering is created by marginalized people and stands as a witness to the power, voice, and resilience of those who have been pushed to the edges of society. It is our collective reclaiming of the Christmas story — not as a Hallmark gloss of perfection, but as a story rooted in poverty, danger, political resistance, and the courage of everyday people. In the original story, poor and marginalized people were entrusted with the birth of a reformer, and society made no room for