"It's Thanksgiving time for Llama Llama and his family! That means yummy foods and autumn leaves and being thankful for everything from pumpkin pies to blue skies. Thanksgiving may only come once a year, but in Llama's family, giving thanks is always here!"--Amazon.com.

Describes differences and similarities between holidays in the United States and Mexico, revealing facts about cultural and political history and emphasizing the unity the celebrations can bring.

Feeling apprehensive about his first trick-or-treating venture on Halloween, Little Monster joins his Papa on a trek through the neighborhood, where encounters with witches, vampires and other costumed beings help him overcome his fears.

Winter, 1920. Amateur sleuth Lady Eleanor Swift is feeling festive. She is playing host to the entire village at Henley Hall for gifts, games and gingerbread. She's also purchased perfect presents for each of her household--not forgetting the biggest bone in the butcher's shop for her partner in crime, Gladstone the bulldog--and is looking forward to celebrating her first English country Christmas. As snowflakes fall, Eleanor is cheering on contestants...

Discusses the history of New Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, the relationship between the colonists and the native Wampanoag people, and the harvest festival which would later become Thanksgiving Day.

Agnes and Clarabelle are best friends who love celebrating holidays together.

"This essential guide has exactly the right books to help you celebrate special days throughout the year--even "holidays" you've never heard of--and provides hundreds of fun titles and activities that could inspire your students to become life-long readers"--

"Amelia Bedelia loves everything about Halloween, but she worries that it will be a big disappointment to her new friend Candy, now that the hair-raising haunted hayride has been canceled. Candy loves thrills and chills. Can Amelia Bedelia and her friends come up with a plan to scare her silly?"-- Provided by publisher.

"When Henry Davis moves into the neighborhood, Barbara Anne and her classmates at Washington Carver Elementary don't know what to make of him. He's pale, small, odd. For curious Barbara Anne, Henry's also a riddle--a boy who sits alone at recess sketching in a mysterious notebook, a boy, she soon learns, who's being haunted by a ghost named Edgar. With the help of some new friends, this unlikely duo is off on an adventure to discover who Edgar was...

“Marley was dead, to begin with,” Charles Dickens tells us at the beginning of A Christmas Carol. But in Jon Clinch’s novel, Jacob Marley, business partner to Ebenezer Scrooge, is very much alive: a rapacious and cunning boy who grows up to be a forger, a scoundrel, and the man who will be both the making and the undoing of Scrooge. They meet as youths in the gloomy confines of Professor Drabb’s Academy for Boys, where Marley begins their...