Home For Christmas

By Scott H. Young

In this entertaining collection of short stories author Scott Young demonstrates his characteristic wit and warmth as he presents amusing and heartfelt tales about Christmas. The diverse cast of characters in this collection includes everything from Christmas-devoted kids and good Samaritans to an Angel named Blobs to Santa Claus himself in stories that will warm your heart and make you smile.

Home for Christmas features these twelve short stories by Scott Young:

“Once Upon a Time in Toronto”
“Red Wagon”
“Little Stars of Bethlehem”
“The Second Coming of Ordinary Angel Blobs”
“A Prarie Boy’s Christmas, 1933”
“The Boy Who Threw a Snowball at Santa”
“Chez Claus”
“A Night After Christmas”
“The Samaritan”
“Glad Tidings from the Paper Boy”
“The Ragtime Shoes”
“Home for Christmas”
“Highly Colored Christmas Scenes”
“The 25-Cent Gift”
“The Santa Scam”
“Uncle Harry Makes an Ending Happy”

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Dec 10, 2013
• ISBN: 9781443434119

Scott H. Young

Scott Young is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Ultralearning, a podcast host, computer programmer, and an avid reader. Since 2006, he has published weekly essays to help people learn and think better. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Pocket, and Business Insider, on the BBC, at TEDx, and other outlets. He doesn’t promise to have all the answers, just a place to start.

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