Who Is Stealing the 12 Days of Christmas? The chipper narrator, Alex Parakeet, lives on Chickadee Court, famous in Alex"s small college town for its 12 houses that annually display items from the famous Christmas carol ("My family is seven swans a-swimming," he explains). But this year there is fowl play: the birds on neighbors" yards-partridge, goose, calling bird, etc.-disappear and then reappear one by one. Alex and his spunky best fri... Full description