Christmas Weekend
Monique Polak
August 2025
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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.
Monique Polak is the author of 34 books for young people. She is a three-time winner of the Quebec Writer's Federation Janet Savage-Blachford Prize for Children's and YA Fiction (formerly the QWF Prize for Children's and YA Fiction). Her work has been nominated for many other prizes including the CCBC Geoffrey Bilson Prize for Historical Fiction; an Arthur Ellis Award, and the Ruth & Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award. In addition to writing many stories for the Montreal Gazette, Monique taught at Marianopolis College for 35 years. She continues to do writing workshops at schools across the country.
