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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
In order to throw his New Year's Eve party, Ray promises not to scare his younger brother Brandon with his ventriloquist dummy Slappy, but when strange, mean-spirited things start happening, Ray suspects Slappy of foul play.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kane Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"When the calendar changes from one year to the next, people like to celebrate! But there's more to New Year's than counting down to midnight. Find out why the calendar starts on January 1, and learn about people from other parts of the world who have brought there own calendars and New Year's traditions to America."--Back cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A kindergarten-level introduction to the Chinese New Year, covering the holiday's history, popular traditions, and such defining symbols as the color red and dragons." --
10) New Year
Author
Publisher
Greystone Kids, Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A moving, lovely cri de coeur from a father, whose daughter has moved to another country. The sense of loss and dislocation is countered by acceptance of the child's need to move away, grow up and become herself. This book would have great resonance in the Chinese diaspora--but also in any diaspora. The loss that is entailed in leaving home, while at the same time the recognition of why it is sometimes necessary is beautifully and lovingly portrayed....
Author
Series
Miss Fortune mystery volume 22
Publisher
J&R Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's New Year's in Sinful. The competition for the New Year's Queen is heating up as the warring churches go head-to-head. Fortune Redding is not the sequined dress kind of woman, but reluctantly agrees to partake in the debacle so that Ida Belle and Gertie can best their nemesis, Celia, who's put up former Sinful mean girl RJ Rogers. RJ and her friend Brock Benoit left plenty of devastation in their wake when they fled Sinful after high school....
Author
Series
How to catch-- volume 9
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A real, wily dragon winds through streets in China, eluding the traps set by a group of children during the Chinese New Year celebration.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ren has always been too little to help make her favorite pineapple cakes for the Lunar New Year, but when her one- of-a-kind brother Charlie arrives for the festivities, with his help, she finally gets her chance. Includes recipe for pineapple cakes.
16) Chinese New Year
Author
Series
Publisher
Pebble Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Simple text and photographs describe and illustrate Chinese New Year and how it is celebrated.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"It's almost Lunar New Year, and Chloe can't wait to celebrate! But first, Chloe and her family must prepare for the new year. They buy new shoes, lay out good-luck oranges in a bowl, decorate the red envelope, and make a crispy turnip cake. Everyone comes together to cook a fantastic feast, saving a plate for A-ma, of course. Chloe enjoys the festive celebration and yummy food, but most of all, she loves spending time with her family. Lily LaMotte...
Author
Series
Ghoulia volume 3
Language
English
Description
Book #3 in this fully illustrated, not-so-spooky chapter book series starring everyone's favorite little zombie
Ghoulia, Auntie Departed, and Tragedy the greyhound are back for another adventure at
Crumbling Manor! They're preparing for the annual Dead but Not Departed New Year's Eve
party. A young ghost arrives, and he seems to be fading away. Turns out, the ghost has forgotten his own name and is in danger of vanishing entirely-all because there's...
Author
Series
Elm Creek Quilts volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
As each holiday season approaches, some revel in welcoming the New Year ahead; others quietly mourn the passing of time gone by. "We can't hold on to the past," says Master Quilter Sylvia Compson, "but we can keep the best part of 'Auld Lang Syne' in our hearts and in our memories, and we can look forward to the future with hope and resolve." As Sylvia, a late-in-life newlywed, has discovered, love can enter our lives at any age. Yet before she can...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011, c2007
Edition
1st Candlewick Press ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Little Maomao's father works in faraway places and comes home just once a year, for Chinese New Year. At first Maomao barely recognizes him, but before long the family is happily making sticky rice balls, listening to firecrackers, and watching the dragon dance in the streets below. Papa gets a haircut, makes repairs to the house, and hides a lucky coin for Maomao to find. Which she does! But all too soon it is time for Papa to go away again.
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