Christmas Carol & the Defenders of Claus

By Robert L. Fouch

While tons of Christmas picture books, licensed titles, and activity books abound, there are very few fiction books for middle-graders.

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever is the gold standard for middle-grade holiday fiction. It sells like crazy every year.

Contains so many appealing middle-grade plot elements -- an orphan adopted by her rich uncle (ie Carol gets whatever she wants for Christmas); a mystery involving said missing parents; a magical trip to the North Pole; an action adventure to save Santa AND Christmas; and a legacy to fulfill.

Similar in theme and genre to the blockbuster DreamWorks movie Rise of the Guardians, only Christmas Carol focuses on Santa Claus's backstory.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sky Pony Press
• Release date: Oct 10, 2017
• ISBN: 9781510724594

Robert L. Fouch

Robert L. Fouch is an author and journalist who grew up in the hills of West Virginia and now makes his home on Long Island in New York. He has worked in the newspaper business for longer than he cares to admit, including twenty-two years at Newsday as a copy editor, page designer, and occasional feature writer. He has a bachelor’ s degree in editorial journalism from Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, and is married with a teenage son, who is his sounding board and toughest critic. He is a Browns and Cubs fan, which, before the end of the curse in 2016, was about as much misery as a sports fan could stand.