Jonathan "Jon Jon" Hughes is pretty sure this Christmas will go down in history-for all the wrong reasons. First, Mom goes on a Christmas strike. I'm done!"). Then Dad, obsessed with beating the neighbor in the annual light contest, buys a bargain tree that comes with a surprise guest-a rabid raccoon. Add Grandma's soup with floating false teeth, a haunted snowman, a flooded basement with a giant lizard, and a baby brother who eats a thirty-year-old fruitcake, and Jon Jon's holiday is officially a disaster. But that's only the beginning. There's the goose named Deuce that terrorizes him ("Deuce the Goose is on the loose!"), the pants-down snowball fight humiliation, a Christmas dinner of sardines and crackers, and a burglar in a Santa suit who steals all of their gifts. Somehow, in the chaos-between flickering lights, exploding water heaters, and carols by candlelight-Jon Jon starts to realize that maybe Christmas isn't about the perfect dinner or the brightest house on the block. It's about spending time with the ones you love.

The Hughes Destroy Christmas is a hilarious, heartwarming holiday disaster story about family, chaos, and discovering that even the worst Christmas can still be the best one yet.