Showing results for "The New Life" in Multicultural Stories

When Lola is accepted to a new school, Mama thinks it’s an “excellent opportunity.” Lola isn’t so sure, especially since it means changing schools—in the middle of the school year! She’ll have to say goodbye to her old school and her old friends. Abuelita tries to convince Lola that she can conquer anything, but can Lola handle a new school and a bully all on her own?

Oh no, seven years of bad luck! When Lola cracks a mirror that Abuelita gave her, she isn’t worried...at first. After all, superstitions aren’t real. Or are they?

La abuela de Katie se tropieza en la acera y se lastima un tobillo, pero muy pronto llegan al rescate dos héroes de la vida real: ¡los paramédicos! Katie descubre que vendar un tobillo es solo parte del trabajo de un paramédico. De hecho, los paramédicos salvan vidas gracias a su trabajo rápido y eficaz. ¡Súper paramédicos al rescate!

It’s laundry day, and J.C. is excited to help his mom. But when J.C. adds too much detergent to the machine, suds are everywhere! Laundry day turns into a mess for everyone in the apartment building. Can J.C. fix his mistake and save laundry day?

At his yearly checkup, Max gets weighed and measured. What else happens at the doctor?

Ryan Hart is caught in the middle. She has an older brother and a new baby sister, and she’s in a friendship tug-of-war with two friends who both want to be her best best friend. How can Ryan think about being kind to a classmate who is relentless with his teasing? Or be her signature sunny self when her brother, Ray, pulls the ultimate prank? But even when it seems like nothing is going her way, Ryan still looks for a way to see the bright side of things, refusing to let anything steal her joy, and finding ways to share it with everyone she meets.

Mindy is excited to celebrate the Lunar New Year! Even though it’s the first one without her mom, Mindy is determined to enjoy the day. She decides to make traditional Korean New Year food, a rice cake soup that’s her favorite. But things aren’t going quite to plan, and the celebration doesn’t feel the same as it did before. With the help of her family and friends, can Mindy find a way to still enjoy her old holiday traditions, and create new ones along the way?

Sissy’s younger brother, Chooch, isn’t a baby anymore. They just celebrated his second birthday after all. But no matter what Chooch does—even if he’s messing something up, which is basically all the time!—their parents just say he’s “helping." Sissy feels that Chooch can get away with anything! When Elisi paints a mural, Chooch helps. When Edutsi makes grape dumplings, Chooch helps. When oginalii gigs for crawdads, Chooch helps. When Sissy tries to make a clay pot, Chooch helps.

On her first day of school in a brand-new country, a gift from Mexico alights on María’s windowsill: “¡Una mariposa!” And with the butterfly, in comes magic. Filled from her toes to her new butterfly wings with memories of home, María knows exactly who she is. But when everything at school is different and strange, doubt begins to fade María’s confidence away. The place she comes from, the community she loves, the magic inside her … does any of it really belong in her new life in the United States?

Wishes tells the powerful, honest story about one Vietnamese family's search for a new home on the other side of the world, and the long-lasting and powerful impact that makes on one of the youngest members of the family. Inspired by actual events in the author's life, this is a narrative that is both timely and timeless. Told through the eyes of a young girl, the story chronicles a family's difficult and powerful journey to pack up what they can carry and to leave their world behind, traveling to a new and unknown place in a crowded boat.

When Swift Fox’s father picks her up to go visit her aunties, uncles, and cousins, her belly is already full of butterflies. And when he tells her that today is the day that she’ll learn how to be Mi’kmaq, the butterflies grow even bigger. Though her father reassures her that Mi’kmaq is who she is from her eyes to her toes, Swift Fox doesn’t understand what that means. Her family welcomes her with smiles and hugs, but when it’s time to smudge and everyone else knows how, Swift Fox feels even more like she doesn’t belong.

Selvom vi går på samme skole, bor i samme by, i samme land, kan der være hele verdener mellem os. Måske føles det slet ikke, som om vi befinder os på samme planet. Denne korte lydbog handler om forskellighed og om, hvad der sker, når to verdener mødes. De danske forfattere Mette Vedsø, Ida-Marie Rendtorff, Tomas Lagermand Lundme, Søren Jessen, Tina Sakura Bestle, Tobias Bukkehave, Hanne Kvist, Glenn Ringtved, Inez Gavilanes og Mette Eike Neerlin står sammen bag novelleantologien "På den anden side". IDA-MARIE RENDTORFF f. 1962 i Fredericia.

Selvom vi går på samme skole, bor i samme by, i samme land, kan der være hele verdener mellem os. Måske føles det slet ikke, som om vi befinder os på samme planet. Denne korte lydbog handler om forskellighed og om, hvad der sker, når to verdener mødes. De danske forfattere Mette Vedsø, Ida-Marie Rendtorff, Tomas Lagermand Lundme, Søren Jessen, Tina Sakura Bestle, Tobias Bukkehave, Hanne Kvist, Glenn Ringtved, Inez Gavilanes og Mette Eike Neerlin står sammen bag novelleantologien "På den anden side". TOMAS LAGERMAND LUNDME f.

Selvom vi går på samme skole, bor i samme by, i samme land, kan der være hele verdener mellem os. Måske føles det slet ikke, som om vi befinder os på samme planet. Denne korte lydbog handler om forskellighed og om, hvad der sker, når to verdener mødes. De danske forfattere Mette Vedsø, Ida-Marie Rendtorff, Tomas Lagermand Lundme, Søren Jessen, Tina Sakura Bestle, Tobias Bukkehave, Hanne Kvist, Glenn Ringtved, Inez Gavilanes og Mette Eike Neerlin står sammen bag novelleantologien "På den anden side". TOBIAS BUKKEHAVE f. 1980 på Svendborg Sygehus.

Selvom vi går på samme skole, bor i samme by, i samme land, kan der være hele verdener mellem os. Måske føles det slet ikke, som om vi befinder os på samme planet. Denne korte lydbog handler om forskellighed og om, hvad der sker, når to verdener mødes. De danske forfattere Mette Vedsø, Ida-Marie Rendtorff, Tomas Lagermand Lundme, Søren Jessen, Tina Sakura Bestle, Tobias Bukkehave, Hanne Kvist, Glenn Ringtved, Inez Gavilanes og Mette Eike Neerlin står sammen bag novelleantologien "På den anden side". INEZ GAVILANES f. 1977 på Frederiksberg.

At Granny’s, Sunday isn’t Sunday without a big family gathering over a lovingly prepared meal. Old enough now, our narrator is finally invited to help cook the dishes for the first time: He joins Granny in grating the cheese, cleaning the greens, and priming the meat for Roscoe Ray’s grill.