01248cam a2200277 4500 363662292 TxAuBib 20150929120000.0 150511s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015018652 9781629720937 hardbound : alk. paper 1629720933 hardbound : alk. paper UPB/DLC eng UPB DLC TxAuBib Hughes, Dean, 1943- Home and away : a World War II Christmas story / Dean Hughes. Salt Lake City, Utah : Shadow Mountain, [2015] 2015. p. cm. 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. 20150929. World War, 1939-1945 Fiction. Families Fiction. Christmas stories. Ogden (Utah.) Historical fiction.