Cottonwood Winter A Christmas Story Author:Gary Slaughter Cottonwood Winter: A Christmas Story is the sequel to the author's critically acclaimed Cottonwood Fall, finalist for the 2007 Benjamin Franklin Award for Popular Fiction. Set in a Michigan small town during the winter of 1944, this heartwarming story interweaves historic events on the European war front with home front mysteries, all to be s... more »olved by Jase Addison, the now adult narrator, and his best friend, the inimitable Danny Tucker. Storylines include dealing with the threat of a murderous German espionage agent and the baffling disappearance of a Santa Claus look alike. During a broadcast interview with author Gary Slaughter, John Seigenthaler, public television host of a Word on Words, refers to these two eleven-year-old boys as this generation's Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. The Cottonwood novels attract those who cherish the memory of a simplier time and seek to relive the past or desire to share this important historical period with children and grandchildren. Readers of all ages are entertained by richly-detailed reminiscenses of home-front America during the last year of World War II and downright good humor.« less