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8) Hanukkah
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Hanukkah is a holiday celebrated by people of the Jewish religion. Hanukkah lasts eight days and is celebrated in late November or early December, the date changes every year, during the celebration people light candles, eat special foods and sing songs.
Author
Series
Kids of the Polk Street School volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Each student in Ms. Rooney's room celebrates the December holidays by being a secret pal to a classmate.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A little girl describes the short, harsh days of winter in Alaska and her efforts to keep a moose from destroying trees and the swing in her back yard, which she finally succeeds in doing with the help of a Hanukkah treat. Includes facts about Hanukkah and the aurora borealis.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
During a scarlet fever epidemic one winter in Michigan, a Jewish family helps make Christmas special for their sick neighbors by making their own Hanukkah miracle. Includes a CD of the author reading the story with music by Hankus Netsky.
12) On Hanukkah
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The author takes young readers to a family gathering where the miracle of Hannukkah is remembered. A glossary is included to help readers pronounce and understand some of the words in the book.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Before Simon sails to America, he promises his family that he will get a job and send for them. Simon's mother knows he will need a miracle, so she reminds him to celebrate Hanukkah wherever he may be. Little does either of them know that Simon will spend the first night of Hanukkah on an ice floe after his ship sinks.The lone survivor out in the wide ocean, Simon lights the first candle, and it attracts a visitor: a polar bear. Does she eat him?...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
On Isaac's street most of the houses are decorated in red and green for Christmas including his friend, Teresa's, while Isaac's house is blue and white for Hanukkah; then someone smashes Isaac's window in the night, and Teresa comes up with a way to show support her friend--and gets the whole community to rally around their Jewish family.
16) Happy holidays!
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
It's holiday time and Elmo doesn't know what to give his goldfish for Christmas. As he tries to decide what to do, he learns about Chanukah and Kwanzaa.