Showing results for "Growing Friendships" in Holidays & Celebrations

It's Ginger's birthday, and she has to invite all the girls in her class to her party, including Lyla Browning. Lyla isn't like the other girls: she smells like old leaves, doesn't talk much, and once brought a tarantula to school for show-and-tell. On the day of the party, Lyla is much earlier than everyone else. But even after the others arrive, Ginger's party doesn't go quite the way she'd hoped: Some of the girls change the rules to the games, and no one likes her silver and gold birthday cake - except Lyla.

There's much excitement in the Dixon household as the Friendship Fairies' dad has bought his own bakery – and he's planning on opening it just in time for Christmas! The girls are busy helping him get ready, and enjoying sampling the wares as they go. But when a little elf from nearby Red Forest comes seeking their help, they down tools and jump into action, for in the magical forest, disaster looms...

Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great is the second book in the outrageously funny Fudge series from the iconic Judy Blume. Sheila hates swimming. And dogs. And ghosts. And thunderstorms. She'll do anything to avoid them all – except admit that she's scared. Her new friend Mouse Ellis, yo-yo...

This year, the girls are everywhere but home for the holidays. From a tropical cruise to a ski trip to Switzerland, it promises to be a Christmas to remember. Becca, Megan, Emma, Cassidy, and Jess have plenty of reading material to bring on their trips, too, because the book club is tackling the Betsy-Tacy series before their next meeting on New Year's Eve.

When Alyssa must spend the summer with her aunt, uncle, and bratty cousin Emily in Willow Falls she thinks it’s a good time to start over. She’ll be turning 13 after all. What Alyssa doesn’t know is that this charmed town has something big in store for her on her 13th birthday.

Now that Rory is 12-years-old there is a long list of things that she is finally allowed to do. But she soon finds out that being twelve might not be all she thought it was cracked up to be.

Es ist doch eine blöde Erfindung, dass man nur ein einziges Mal im Jahr Geburtstag hat. Soll Lu jetzt wirklich 365 Tage warten, bis sie wieder eine Party feiern kann? Kommt nicht in Frage! Gemeinsam mit ihren Freunden Pelle und Rio beschließt Lu, ab sofort auf jeden Geburtstag zu gehen, von dem sie erfahren. Auch ohne Einladung, dafür mit Geschenk! Leider freuen sich nicht alle Geburtstagskinder über ihren Überraschungsbesuch. Vor allem, wenn Chickaletta, das Huhn, mal wieder in die Deko flattert und das teure Porzellan zerdeppert. Hupsi.

Lu, Rio und Pelle haben es geschafft: Sie dürfen ganz offiziell Geburtstagspartys organisieren – und ihr erster Auftrag steht auch schon fest: Amelies Geburtstag. Erst wünscht Amelie sich eine Unterwasserparty. Dann eine Popstarparty. Oder vielleicht doch ganz was anderes? Zum Glück findet die Geburtstagsbande heraus, was hinter Amelies ständig wechselnden Wünschen und Ideen steckt, und am Ende feiern sie zusammen die schönste Geburtstagsparty des Sommers. Der zweite Band der Geburtstagsbande feiert die Freundschaft und den Mut, zu sich selbst zu stehen!

Valentine's Day is Abby's least favorite holiday. Mushy stuff like valentines, red hearts, and a school dance turn her into a Valentine's Scrooge. When Ross Brown, a perfectly nice guy in Abby's English class, invites her to the dance, Abby tries to set him up with her twin sister, Anna.

Oggie Cooder's charving has already taken him to the top of the world. (Charving, in case you don't know, involves chewing and carving pieces of cheese.) But there's one place Oggie Cooder has never been allowed to go: Donnica Perfecto's pool.

After Papa loses his job during the Depression, Hannah's family moves to rural Minnesota, where she is the only Jewish child in her class. When her teacher tries to arrange carpools for a Saturday class picnic, Hannah is upset. Her Jewish family is observant, and she knows she cannot ride on the Sabbath. What will she do? A lovely story of friendship and community.