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Christmas

|Author |Title |Type* |Difficulty** |Type of |Place of Celebration |Origin of |Other |

| | | | |Celebration | |Celebration | |

|Hamilton, Virginia | Bells of Christmas, The |Picture, Historical |Medium |Christmas |1890’s, | |An African-American family's |

| | |Fiction | | |Farmlands of Ohio | |celebration |

|Rylant, Cynthia |Children of Christmas |FIC, Bilingual |Easy |Christmas |Various | |Collection of short stories |

|Jimenez, Francisco |Christmas Gift, The |Picture, FIC, BIO, |Easy |Christmas |California | |Christmas |

| | |Bilingual | | | | |story of a migrant family in |

| | | | | | | |California |

|McKissack, Patricia & |Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the |Picture, Historical |Medium |Christmas |Southern United States| |Christmas season during slavery|

|McKissack, Frederick |Quarters |FIC | | |in the 1800s | | |

|Cohn, Janice |Christmas Menorahs, The |Picture, FIC |Easy |Christmas, Hanukkah|Billings, Montana, in | |Families in a community decided|

| | | | | |1993 | |to stand together to combat |

| | | | | | | |bigotry |

|Polacco, Patricia |Christmas Tapestry |Picture, Fiction |Medium |Christmas, Hanukkah|Detroit, Michigan | |A minister and his son help |

| | | | | | | |reunite a Jewish couple |

| | | | | | | |separated in World War II. |

|Jordan, Sandra |Christmas Tree Farm |Picture, NF |Easy |Christmas |Christmas tree farm in| |A year at the farm |

| | | | | |Rhode Island | | |

|Bunting, Eve |Day Before Christmas, The |Picture, FIC |Easy |Christmas |California | |Contains excerpts from "The |

| | | | | | | |Nutcracker" |

|Bunting, Eve |December |Picture, FIC |Easy |Christmas |Somewhere in the U.S. | |Christmas “magic” |

|Smalls, Irene |Irene Jennie and the Christmas Masquerade |Picture, FIC |Medium |Christmas |United States (Slave | | |

| | | | | |Era) | | |

|Thomas, Jane Resh |Lights on the River |Picture, FIC |Medium |Christmas |United States | |Mexican immigration |

|Paterson, Katherine |Midnight Clear: Stories for the Christmas |YA, Short Story |Medium |Christmas |Various | |Short stories |

| |Season, A | | | | | | |

|Rylant, Cynthia |Silver Packages |Picture, FIC |Easy |Christmas |Appalachia | |A man returns to Appalachia |

|Foreman, Michael |War Game |Picture, FIC |Medium |Christmas |WWI Era | |Soldiers on opposing sides play|

| | | | | | | |soccer |

Hanukkah

|Cohn, Janice |Christmas Menorahs, The |Picture, FIC |Easy |Christmas, Hanukkah |Billings, Montana, in | |Families in a community decided|

| | | | | |1993 | |to stand together to combat |

| | | | | | | |bigotry |

|Polacco, Patricia |Christmas Tapestry |Picture, Fiction |Medium |Christmas, Hanukkah |Detroit, Michigan | |A minister and his son help |

| | | | | | | |reunite a Jewish couple |

| | | | | | | |separated in World War II. |

|Adler, David |One Yellow Daffodil: A Hanukkah Story |Picture, FIC |Easy |Hanukkah |Somewhere in the U.S. | |Holocaust survivor who hasn't |

| | | | | | | |celebrated Hanukkah since his |

| | | | | | | |childhood |

|Hesse, Karen |Stone Lamp, The |Picture, NF |Medium |Hanukkah |Various | |History and poetry |

Thanksgiving

|Bunting, Eve |How Many Days to America? |Picture, FIC |Easy |Thanksgiving |The Caribbean & The US| |A child from a Caribbean island|

| | | | | | | |gives thanks with his family |

|Rylant, Cynthia |In November |Picture, NF |Easy |Thanksgiving |Somewhere in the U.S. | | |

|San Souci, Robert |N.C. Wyeth's Pilgrims |Picture, NF |Medium |Thanksgiving |United States, |X |Pilgrims & immigration |

| | | | | |Plymouth Rock | | |

|Koller, Jackie |Nickommoh! A Thanksgiving Celebration |Picture, FIC |Easy |Thanksgiving |United States |X |Native American harvest |

| | | | | | | |celebration |

|Anderson, Laurie |Thank You, Sarah: The Woman Who Saved |Picture, NF |Medium | | |X |Thanksgiving as an official |

| |Thanksgiving | | | | | |holiday |

Junteenth

|Author |Title |Type* |Difficulty** |Type of Celebration|Place of Celebration |Origin |Other |

| | | | | | |Of Celebration | |

|Wesley, Valery |Freedom's Gifts |Picture, Fiction |Medium |Juneteenth |Texas |X |History of Juneteenth, the day |

| | | | | | | |for celebrating freedom from |

| | | | | | | |slavery. |

|Branch, Muriel Miller |Juneteenth |Picture, NF |Medium |Juneteenth |United States |X | |

Kwanzaa

|Mazer, Anne |America Street: A Multicultural Anthology of |FIC, Short Story |Medium |Black History month,|America | |People from different ethnic |

| |Stories | | |Kwanzaa | | |back-grounds. |

New Year

|Bouchard, David |Dragon New Year, The |Picture, Folk Tale |Medium |New Year |China |X |Why the Chinese celebrate New |

| | | | | | | |Year with firecrackers |

Everyday

|Raven, Margot |America’s White Table |F |Medium |National MIA-POW | |Vietnam veterans | |

| | | | |Recognition Day | | | |

|Ancona, George |Barrio |Picture, NF, Bio |Medium |Everyday |San Francisco | |Life in a barrio or Hispanic |

| | | | | | | |neighbor-hood |

|Baylor, Byrd |I’m In Charge of Celebrations |Picture, Fic |Easy |Everyday |Southwest US |X |Native American |

* P = Picture book ** Easy = Level 1 & 2

YA = Young adult book Medium = Level 3 & 4

BIO = Biography Difficult = GED-level

FIC = Fiction

NF = Nonfiction

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Holidays and Celebrations Collection (updated August 2008)

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