The Christmas Sweater is about a twelve-year-old boy named Edward Lee. At the beginning of the book, his father has died and his mother takes him to see his grandparents. He started talking about how his father bought a bakery when he was young. The bakery was called City Bakery. He explained how much his father loved to cook and that he knew how to cook very well. He made bread and different desserts. He helped his father in the bakery. One day he noticed that Mrs. Olsen, who was a customer, was paying his father with food stamps. Eddie thought his father had simply been scammed, but his father explained to him what a food stamp was. He explained that it was for people who had a financial situation, he told Eddie that Mrs. Olsen was someone who needed it. There was also a man who had food stamps, but Eddie's father said the man could work, but he chose not to. On Christmas Eve, he and his mother were going to visit his grandparents. Eddie loved to go visit his grandparents, he played cards with his grandfather and they also went around the house and looked for them....