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Author Hughes, Dean, 1943- author.

Title Home and away : a World War II Christmas story / Dean Hughes.

Publication Info. Salt Lake City, Utah : Shadow Mountain, [2015]
©2015

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Fiction  F Hughes    ---  Available
Description 169 pages ; 19 cm
text rdacontent
unmediated rdamedia
volume rdacarrier
Source NBK 12/15 PPL
Summary Norma Hayes has always tried to make Christmas special for her family, but Christmas 1944 is especially difficult with her soldier son Glen away in Europe, and rationing and lack of money don't help. Teenage Dennis tries to buy his mother a special gift for Christmas as a symbol of times gone by and hope for the future, while Glen is reminded of home by the scent of lavendar on a battlefield.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Ogden (Utah), setting.
Genre/Form Christmas stories.
Historical fiction.
ISBN 9781629720937

 
    
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