Christmas Weekend
- Publisher
- Linda Leith Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2025
- Category
- General, General (see also headings under Social Themes), General
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781773901787
- Publish Date
- Aug 2025
- List Price
- $12.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781773901770
- Publish Date
- Aug 2025
- List Price
- $16.95
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 13 to 18
- Grade: 12
Description
Geoffrey isn't too thrilled about having to spend Christmas weekend at his dad's cottage in the Laurentians. The Internet is so lousy Geoffrey can't play computer games. Even worse, there's Rebekah, his dad's latest girlfriend. Rebekah is unbearably cheerful and for someone Jewish, she's way too into Christmas. It doesn't help that Geoffrey's kid sister Angela and the family dog, Paprika, give Rebekah a chance. A freak storm traps the family in the cottage. When a late-night cooking experiment goes terribly wrong, Geoffrey and his sister get to know Rebekah in ways they could never have expected.
About the author
MONIQUE POLAK écrit régulièrement pour le Montreal Gazette et a été publiée dans de nombreux autres quotidiens de renom tels que le Globe and Mail, le National Post et Newsday. Dans la collection SideStreets, elle a écrit All In et On the Game, ainsi que Flip Turn pour la collection Sports Stories. D’ailleurs, ces deux derniers ouvrages ont figuré sur la liste des meilleurs livres pour enfants du Centre du livre jeunesse canadien. Monique enseigne l’écriture ainsi que la littérature anglaise. Elle vit à Montréal, au Québec, avec son mari et sa fille.
MONIQUE POLAK is the author of 26 novels for young readers, as well as two non-fiction titles and a board book. Her books Hate Mail, Room for One More, and the historical novel What World is Left, which was inspired by her mother’s experience during the Holocaust, were all winners of the Quebec Writers’ Federation Prize for Children’s and YA Literature.
Her books have also been nominated for the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People and the Arthur Ellis Award, and several have been selected as Best Books for Children and Teens by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre.
She is also a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, Macleans, and Postmedia newspapers across the country, and is a columnist on ICI Radio-Canada’s Plus on est de fous, plus on lit Monique lives in Montreal, Quebec, where she teaches English and Humanities at Marianopolis College.
