Download or read book Penina Levine Is a Potato Pancake written by Rebecca O'Connell and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FRESH, FEISTY, FUNNY. In this Hanukkah story, Penina finds that a glass of cold milk and a hot potato pancake go a long way. Penina Levine is the only member of her family who isn't looking forward to Hanukkah. Not only is it another chance for her annoying sister to steal the spotlight, but her favorite teacher is taking a mysterious leave of absence, and her best friend is deserting her to go on a dream vacation to Aruba. Then Penina discovers why Mrs. Brown must go away and hears that a snowstorm may ruin Zozo's trip, and Penina knows she's the one who must bring some holiday spirit to her friends. Readers of all backgrounds will relate to Penina as she turns a pile of problems into a Hanukkah to remember. Penina Levine Is a Potato Pancake is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Download or read book Penina Levine Is a Hard boiled Egg written by Rebecca O'Connell and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penina Levine has a bossy best friend, a tattletale sister, crazy parents, and a big, fat zero on her school assignment. It was a stupid assignment, completely impossible, totally unfair. She's never going to do it, not ever, and it's no use telling her parents about it. They never listen to her anyway. But Penina's grandmother does. Grandma doesn't think Penina should do the assignment. It's a matter of principle. It's a matter of strength. It's a matter of five thousand years of history, four cups of wine, and a couple dozen hard-boiled eggs.
Download or read book Childrens Catalog written by H.W. Wilson Company and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1st ed. includes an index to v. 28-36 of St. Nicholas.
Download or read book Grandma Makes Potato Pancakes written by Josephine Masterson and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A day in the kitchen with Ari's grandmother is fun, especially when potato pancakes are the result. Ari helps Grandma count ingredients and follows along as Grandma turns ordinary potatoes into a deliciously different dish. This fiction title is paired with the nonfiction title "All About Potatoes" for connecting across texts and comprehension through connection strategies.
Download or read book How I Saved Hanukkah written by Amy Goldman Koss and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-09-25 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Will appeal to young readers who will also find themselves learning a bit about the meaning of Hanukkah...Warm and funny." —School Library Journal Marla Feinstein, the only Jewish kid in her fourth-grade class, hates December. While everyone else is decorating trees, she'll be forgetting to light the candles and staring at a big plastic dreidel. The holidays couldn't get much worse. So Marla decides to find out what Hanukkah's really about—and soon she and her family have made the Festival of Lights the biggest party in town!
Download or read book The Private Notebook of Katie Roberts Age 11 written by Amy Hest and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katie Roberts' life is about to change. Her widowed mother is getting remarried and is taking her away from New York City to a ranch in Texas--away from everything and everyone that she knows. Hest, author of the acclaimed novel Love You, Soldier that featured Katie at age seven, has written a new story in the intimate form of Katie's diary, letters and drawings that sings of a girl's longing to fit into a new life without forgetting the old.
Download or read book Women Who Broke the Rules Judy Blume written by Kathleen Krull and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new biography series complete with full color illustrations that celebrates amazing women, from acclaimed author Kathleen Krull.
Download or read book Hanukkah Lights written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating its 15th season, NPRUs "Hanukkah Lights" radio show gathers works by some of today's best Jewish storytellers, from Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel to MacArthur Award winner Rebecca Goldstein.
Download or read book Let It Snow written by John Green and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a Netflix Original Film! #1 New York Times bestseller An ill-timed storm on Christmas Eve buries the residents of Gracetown under multiple feet of snow and causes quite a bit of chaos. One brave soul ventures out into the storm from her stranded train, setting off a chain of events that will change quite a few lives. Over the next three days one girl takes a risky shortcut with an adorable stranger, three friends set out to win a race to the Waffle House (and the hash brown spoils), and the fate of a teacup pig falls into the hands of a lovesick barista. A trio of today’s bestselling authors—John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle—brings all the magic of the holidays to life in three hilarious and charming interconnected tales of love, romance, and kisses that will steal your breath away. “A comedy as delicious as any whipped up by the Bard.” —Washington Post Book World
Download or read book More All of a kind Family written by Sydney Taylor and published by Taylor Productions. This book was released on 1954 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sydney Taylor grew up among immigrant families on New York City's Lower East Side prior to World War I and wrote the All-of-a-Kind Family stories for her daughter. Based on her family and childhood, these charming books capture the everyday life of a home with little money but lots of love and good times to share. Each book shares the ups and downs in the lives of this special family, through the eyes of Ella, Charlotte, Henny, Sarah, Gertie, and their little brother, Charlie.
Download or read book Eight Winter Nights written by Laura Krauss Melmed and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2011-12-16 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “inviting picture book” following a family’s Hanukkah preparations and celebrations in lively, simple verse, from the author of Moishe’s Miracle (Booklist). Laura Krauss Melmed and illustrator Elisabeth Schlossberg celebrate Hanukkah in joyful action rhymes, festive poems, and exuberant scenes of family life. From traditional holiday foods to the story of the Maccabees, they capture the warm sights, sounds, and tastes of this wintertime festival. “The verse and illustrations work well together, depicting the relatives as they gather to light the candles, share traditional foods and games, and enjoy the pleasure of one another’s company.” —Booklist This collection of brief, playful poems is likely to inspire countless religious school holiday pageants . . . [A] tender portrayal of a close-knit extended family caught up in holiday excitement.” —Publishers Weekly
Download or read book The Borrowed Hanukkah Latkes written by Linda Glaser and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1997 Smithsonian Magazine's Notable Book for Children It's the last night of Hanukkah, and more relatives are coming than originally planned. Rachel decides to borrow potatoes from Mrs. Greenberg. She asks Mrs. Greenberg, who is all alone, to come for Hanukkah. But Mrs. Greenberg is very stubborn!
Download or read book Bear Feels Sick written by Karma Wilson and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2009 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Bear is too sick to play, his animal friends go to his cave to make him soup and tea and keep him company.
Download or read book Sam and Charlie and Sam Too written by Leslie Kimmelman and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Charlie moves next door to Sam, he's thrilled to have a new friend—even if she is a girl. Charlie has a little sister, also named Sam—or Sam Too, as the other Sam comes to call her. Both Sam and Charlie (and Sam Too) are Jewish, and they try to live by the religion's motto: Love your neighbor as yourself. The five brief stories in this book, accompanied by colorful illustrations, highlight the value of friendship and its ups and downs.
Download or read book A Touch of Chanukah written by Sylvia A. Rouss and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textured illustrations and simple text identify various Chanukah elements for young readers.
Download or read book Myrtle of Willendorf written by Rebecca O'Connell and published by Front Street, Incorporated. This book was released on 2000 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bright and artistic young woman with a fondness for junk food experiences a kooky modern-day coming of age by way of the Goddess within.
Download or read book Baby Parade written by Rebecca O'Connell and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here come the babies! It's a baby parade! Wave to the babies as they go by in wagons, in backpacks, on foot, and in the arms of mommies and daddies. This adorable parade will be irresistible to toddlers (and caregivers) everywhere.
