The Night Before Krampus, by Peter Johnson | Book Spotlight

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It’s two days before Christmas and a quiet Rhode Island town is about to be visited by a number of unexpected guests …

Age Range: 12+

Paperback: 159 pages

The Night Before Krampus

Written by Peter Johnson

Publisher’s Synopsis: It’s two days before Christmas and a quiet Rhode Island town is about to be visited by a number of unexpected guests—including a pair of very different Krampuses. Are they there to protect the innocent, or to exact revenge for a long-forgotten tragedy? Some curses fade over time, while others grow stronger. In this homage to Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, a young boy named Christoph and his friends must find some way to atone for a wrong committed a generation before they were born.

Ages 12+ | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | 2017 | ISBN-13: 978-1977765178

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About the Author

Peter Johnson is the critically acclaimed author of several collections of poetry, short stories, and YA and middle grade novels. His book of prose poems, Miracles & Mortifications, received the James Laughlin Award from The Academy of American Poets, an award given to what the Academy believes to be the best second book by an American poet. His first YA novel, What Happened was awarded the Paterson Prize and was called the “most gorgeously written YA of 2007” by Booklist, and his middle grade novel, The Adventures of John Smith Jr., aka Houdini, was chosen as one of the best children’s books of the year by Kirkus Reviews. Johnson is the recipient of two creative writing awards from Rhode Council on the Arts and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is a Professor Emeritus at Providence College where he still teaches, and he lives in Barrington, RI with his family and his black pug, Winnie. His website can be found at peterjohnsonauthor.com His Amazon author’s page is at: https://www.amazon.com/Peter-Johnson/e/B001JP0DNY/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1