new year

Describes the origins of New Year's celebrations and traditions and how they differ throughout the world. Includes games, recipes, songs, customs, and interesting facts from various countries.

In a traditional New Year's Day celebration, a young Mayan boy leads a procession over the mountainous trail to the cathedral below, where he is rewarded by the village elders for his fortitude.

Fourteen-year-old Ashley has her heart set on spending New Year's Eve 1999 at an exclusive country club party with an Almost Boyfriend, but her plan is endangered by her stepmother and two bratty stepsisters.

Squirrel cannot think of a New Year's resolution until she realizes that by helping her friends, she has made one after all.

Amelia draws pictures in her diary along with her fourteen written resolutions for having a fun new year.

Briefly describes the most important Chinese holiday, which signals the end of winter and the coming of spring.

Mounted on the flying Santa Cows, the Schwartzes travel to the South Seas for a New Year's vacation.

Text and photographs depict the celebration of Chinese New Year by Chinese Americans living in San Francisco's Chinatown.

Mr. P. Bear decides to throw a formal New Year's party, and invites his friends--pandas, penguins, dairy cows, skunks, and whale--to count down the time until it is Happy New Year.

Emma struggles in her New Year's resolution to be nicer to the other witches Dolores and Lavinia, as they persist in being dreadful to her, until their relationship climaxes in a dreadful revenge on New Year's Day.