Title: Confessions of a Bitter Secret Santa (Candy Apple #13)
Description: Candy Apple is a fresh, fun take on fiction for girls: a new line of single titles with pep and pizzazz targeted at the solid middle-grade reader.

Christmas . . . bah humbug!

Noel thought Christmas couldn't get any worse. First her parents announce that she wouldn't be taking a cool vacation. Then the teacher announces a class secret Santa drawing - and who does Noel get? A stuck-up new girl she barely knows! And who does her BFF get? Noel's secret crush! Can it get any worse? Yes it can! Because Noel's own secret Santa is the lamest one ever! Now Noel's got visions of Scrooge not sugar plums in her head. . .But Christmas is a time for surprises . . . especially for one bitter, secret Santa
Subjects: Middle school students, Schools, Juvenile fiction, Christmas, Christmas stories, Fiction, Gifts, Ceremonial exchange, Children's fiction, Christmas, fiction, Santa claus, fiction, Schools, fiction