Eleven-year-old Leah Olson loves her life in San Angelo, Texas especially during the holidays, when she sees her favorite poem "Twas the Night Before Christmas" come to life within the Santa Rita Christmas Boxes.
On Christmas eve, Leah finds out the family must move due to her dadÕs new military job. Leah decides to run away and live with her best friend instead of leaving her beloved San Angelo. On the way to her friend, Leah gets scared and hides in a Santa Rita Christmas box.
Moving is now the least of Leah's worries. Leah has been transported into a new time and space where the Christmas boxes are a family home with a talking dog. Leah meets new friends who try and help her catch a ride home with Santa before the Christmas poem ends.
The Santa Rita Christmas Boxes is a historic fantasy tale of a girl facing the unknown but, in the end, finding that family is the light in her life and the home where she will always be loved.