Review and a Giveaway: North Pole High by Candace Jane Kringle

Meet sixteen-year old Candycane Claus. She's the most popular girl at North Pole High. Her father is world-famous. And every day is Christmas. What more could any girl want?

BOYS! And the new boy, Rudy Tutti, is hot chocolate. But he hates anything to do with Christmas!

When Candy and Rudy are forced to work together on a school Christmas-tree project, her world is turned upside down: Her grades start to suffer, she loses her taste for ice cream, and now the two North-Star-cross'd teens must contend with her overprotective father — Santa Claus — before Christmas is ruined for EVERYONE! ~~ synopsis from Goodreads

My thoughts about North Pole High ~~ (and stop by tomorrow to see what Candace has to say about her voices)

Okay, let me just start off by saying that I love the Christmas season and that I still believe in Christmas magic. When Candace asked me to read her book, I just knew it was going to be fun!

Candycane is a high school student at North Pole High. She has all the joys and problems of being a teenage as well as being the daughter of Santa Claus. (How awesome would that be!!)

And she puts out a disclaimer right off the bat ~

'The other thing I need to make clear up up front is: If you're one of those people who thinks my dad doesn't exist, you might as well stop reading now.'

Well .... I believe, so I just kept on reading!

I really, really enjoyed this book so much! The author has such a wonderful sense of humor and a great imagination. Where else but the North Pole could you find a seven-foot-tall penguin named Chefy who is the chef for the North Pole, as well as being Santa's right hand man running the household. And a eight-and-a-half-foot tall shaggy white polar bear named, what else, Mr. Polar Bear, as one of the high school teachers.

Candycane has to try to convince Rudy that the Christmas spirit is a good thing. It's not going to be easy. Rudy is the new kid in town.

'Poor Rudy. All the other children laughed and called him names, and it was partly my fault.'

I love all the subtle and sometimes not so subtle references to all things related to Christmas, Santa, and the North Pole. Check these out!

Pizza at T.G.I Fruitcake

Maid-A-Milking Massage Parlor

Chocolate noodle soup

Music being spun by Kayne North, the DJ seal

Hanukkah the Outcast Elf

Queero the Flamboyantly Gay Polar Bear

And they feed the reindeer cocoa beans so then they poop out the best chocolate in the world! Isn't that a hoot??

Love, love, love North Pole High and am looking forward to reading the further adventures of Candycane and her friends.

Probably one of the best lines in the book and one I want to leave you with is ~~

'People don't outgrow Christmas. Sometimes they set it aside and forget. But it always comes back.'

About the author

Candace Jane Kringle is a junior at North Pole High. She likes candy canes, unicorn races, and making snow angels. Her father is the most well-known and beloved toymaker and toy distributor in the world. Her memoir, North Pole High: A Rebel Without a Claus, is her first book. After high school, she plans to enroll at North Pole University and write more books, maybe even some fiction.

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