Edwards, Michelle

On the first Hanukkah after Mama died, Papa and his two daughters try to make latkes and celebrate without her.

On the first day of second grade at her new school, Pa Lia Vang discovers that things are not as bad as she had feared.

Alex calms his younger brother when they hear strange noises at bedtime, but is he brave enough to cross the cold floor of their dark room when a feet-grabbing, toe-eating, noise-making "something" might get him?.

A little boy frets that the sewing room where his baby brother or sister will sleep will never be emptied of things his mother has collected from neighbors for years, but she uses those things to sew and knit everything from diapers to Hanukah gifts.

After falling off of the tricycle she just received as a Hanukkah gift, Gabi recalls the story of the brave Maccabees and finds the courage to try again.

Each time Chicken Man is moved into a new job on the kibbutz, someone else wants to take that job instead, and the chickens suffer as a consequence.

This Hebrew alphabet book features three siblings and their parents in their everyday family life at home.

Having written and illustrated a book about her grandparents, Dora asks her friend Tom for help in printing and binding it.

Pa Lia and her classmates share memories of Stinky Stern, the second-grade bully, who was killed when he ran into the street.

Second-grader Howardina Geraldina Paulina Maxina Gardenia Smith is sure she will be the star of the talent show, but when she gets up to sing at the dress rehearsal, she gets stage fright.