The Rudolph Challenge

Flea's Five Christmases #2

by Kevin George

The next year Flea spends in the human world is the longest of his life. Memories of his life at the North Pole are always on his mind, memories of his friends, of the magical world, of the evil ice demon that attacked him...

He's moved to Florida with Miss Mabel, who is more paranoid than ever. But the warm weather and sunshine does not last long - cold temperatures and snow seem to follow him wherever he goes... as do red-eyed snowmen...

His second year at the North Pole brings new adventures with his friends, new lessons at elf school, new prophecies from Red-Robe, new dangers from the South Pole and new answers - as well as new questions - about his real family...

From competing in the 'Snow Wars' to meeting new reindeer to dealing with a potential traitor at the North Pole, Flea will be lucky if he survives to see the end of another Christmas building season...

Check out other books from the author!

FLEA'S FIVE CHRISTMASES series:
"The North Pole Challenge" - Flea's First Christmas (Winner of the Best Unpublished Novel at the 2010 New York Book Festival)
"The Rudolph Challenge" - Flea's Second Christmas
"The Jack Frost Challenge" - Flea's Third Christmas
"The Frostie Challenge" - Flea's Fourth Christmas
"The South Pole Challenge" - Flea's Fifth and Final Christmas

Genres: Christmas, Fantasy, Childrens, Adventure, Holiday, Fiction

414 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 9, 2011

About the author

Kevin George has written over 40 books with plenty more on the way. They are as follows:

COMET CLEMENT SERIES
The Inner Circle - Book 1
Interception - Book 2
The New Space Race - Book 3
The Three Arks - Book 4
Evacuation Earth - Book 5
Final Days - Book 6
Impact - Book 7
Uninvited - Book 8
Takeover - Book 9
Mission: Survival - Book 10
Relocation - Book 11
A Second Chance - Book 12
The Compound - Book 13
A New World - Book 14
Book 15 coming soon...

THE TRAIL OF MAGIC SERIES
The Oasis War (Book 1)
The Wilderynth (Book 2)
Castle Island (Book 3)
The Floating Lands (Book 4)
The Palace (Book 5)
more books coming soon...

THE GREAT BLUE ABOVE series
The City Below (#1)
The Dome of Life (#2)
The Battle Above (#3)
Before the Nothingness (#4)
The Tunnel War (#5)
The Mountain (#6)
Above the Great Blue (#7)

CRYO-MAN series
Cryo-Man (#1)
Robotropolis (#2)
Dearborn (#3)
Beyond River City (#4)

LIFE, INC. - If you could learn the exact moment of your death, would you? If you could see a deceased loved one for one final day - at the cost of one year of your life - would you? These are the answers Life, Inc. wants to know...

KEEPER OF THE WATER series
Drinking Life (#1)
Recruits (#2)
The Water Queens (#3)

FLEA'S FIVE CHRISTMASES
The North Pole Challenge (#1)
The Rudolph Challenge (#2)
The Jack Frost Challenge (#3)
The Frostie Challenge (#4)
The South Pole Challenge (#5)

THE HINTERLAND CHRONICLES
Pigeon in the Pinewoods (#1)
The Castle Tree (#2)
The Pendant of Hinterland (#3)

Eddie and Jeremy Go to the Aquarium
Eddie and Jeremy Go to the North Pole

Reviews

[Suzie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just as fun to read as the first book!

I am loving these stories about Flea and his friends. More thrills and chills and lessons learned for all of them! I'm starting book 3 today....

[Rebekah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great series

Well written with humor and suspense and and rounded out with lessons learned. Looking forward to the next installment of the series.

[Rich Bisanz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great, great book

For the young and not so young, this has been a great series. It's all about Flea and his role in saving Christmas. His adventures are fun and imaginative.

[Lizzie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like the story line. I like the mystery involved with the Christmas holiday and winter characters. This book did annoy me quite a few times as the editing needs to be corrected. There were several times where the typos and the wrong character name being used forced me to reread the sentence/paragraph to figure out what was meant rather than what was written. I hope the author goes back and fixes these. While I really like the story and believe the author has done a good job with characters, world building, and plot, the errors have annoyed me to the extent that I have not rushed to but the next book in the series. i would buy these stories as a gift for junior high/young teens and think boys would find these interesting too. (When my children were young, finding books my son would like was always problematic. I think he would have liked these.)

[Darlene Chisholm · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved the first ebook in this series and knew right away that I'd want to read the next one. I must say I wasn't disappointed in the story. I loved how the games were incorporated into the story and that we saw some new character developments with the beloved characters of Minko and Rome and of course got to spend some time with the reindeer. I think I still feel a bit negatively about the whole toy making timeline and the slowing down of time in the "human" world at 11:59 pm on Christmas Eve, but I've grown to deal with it. When I got to the end, I found myself wanting to continue reading more. But hey, that's where the next one in the series comes in!

Happy reading everyone. I intend to check out #3 next Christmas season.

Merry Christmas everybody!

[Julie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sigh.... my kids just loved this book. And the end was so exciting that they made me read for and hour last night, and two hours this morning until we finished the book. I have to agree that it was good, but the sore throat is not very happy right now :) But book three has been downloaded and we'll start that one tonight.

The characters are lovable and realistic, and the situations that they are put into are remarkably relevant to my kids' lives despite the fact that we are reading about elves and talking reindeer who know how to bake. It is a very good series so far... my only complaint is that the typos, grammatical errors, and pronoun switches made the book hard to follow in spots. But aside from the dire need of an editor, the book was still enjoyable.

[Timbra · Rating 4 out of 5]

My kiddos LOVE this series. It makes them laugh and discuss. The characters continued to develop in this book. Events were fresh and engaging. There was a wonderful plot twist that my daughter still gets excited about. It served as a basis for us to talk about foreshadowing and the very concept of a plot twist.

[Kjersti · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved the plot, but at times the grammatical and character name errors were quite confusing/distracting.

[Jemima Pett · Rating 3 out of 5]

review to follow

[Gene Rosso · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not as good as the North Pole Challenge but still good

[Samantha · Rating 5 out of 5]

My kids are absolutely in love with this story! It may be after Christmas but they can't wait to hear what happens in the next book. I will have to admit, I am enjoying the story as much as they are. Fun family read.