Winner of the 'Sundance' of the book publishing world, the 2011 Next Generation Indie Book Award Winner (Children's/Juvenile Fiction).

Read a story unlike any other about a boy whose destiny will force you to forget everything you know about Santa because it's just not true! In Franco's book it is six days before Christmas in Winter Garden and weird things are happening in 11-year-old Jakob's Florida neighborhood. His friends are convinced their Christmas is in danger, and then live snowmen strangely appear and confirm the threat. Jakob dismisses the bizarre events as an elaborate hoax concocted by the neighborhood bully. But when the bully turns into smoke, a devilish stranger appears as the mastermind behind the mayhem demanding that Jakob catch Santa...or else! Less