In this town, the local protestant church is the glue of the community. A lady leads the Christmas pageant every year and it always is done the same way. One year, she is hospitalized and unable to lead it, so the narrator's mom takes leadership of it instead. However, this just happens to be the time that the narrator's brother had told the Herdmans that there is food at church. The Herdmans are a group of poor unsupervised ruckus bullies. They decide they want to be in the pageant and take all the major roles. (They threatened the other kids to prevent them from trying out.) The pageant has a totally new twist with more relatable things such as a ham for a wise man gift. At first people cringe at the changes, but then realize there is true passion and belief in this and it is the best pageant ever. It makes for a nice tear-jerker.
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