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Chinese New Year is the most popular holiday celebrated among Chinese people. It is a time when families and friends come together to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. As they enter a New Year, the Chinese put all things of the past behind them. They clean their homes, pay off debts, and even get new haircuts. These activities represent new life and new beginnings.
The tradition of Valentine’s Day may be traced to 15th century Europe, but its future may well lie on the other side of the globe, in 21st century Asia. The rapid adoption of Valentine’s Day in the world’s two largest countries is spreading this tradition far beyond the Tower of London prison where the Duke of Orleans is said to have initiated it with poetic letters to his wife in France.
China actually has a similar, far older tradition, that celebrates romance on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month each year. But Valentine’s Day on February 14th is becoming an even bigger deal, especially in major Westernized cities like Shanghai. Fancy hotel suites and special high-priced dinner evenings are increasing in popularity. Indeed, according to a report on China.org, there is huge demand among couples to get married on February 14th - a newly auspicious date, and preferable for many to marrying on traditionally appropriate wedding dates.
Which country produces the largest number of movies?
You might be surprised to learn that India produces an average of 800 movies a year, and that number continues to grow. Just as the movie capitol of the United States is Hollywood, the movie capitol of India is Bombay, but it is commonly called “Bollywood,” a combination of the words Bombay and Hollywood.
Jim was savoring the last days of summer before the new school term. Sitting in a pocket of willow tree roots, his back bolstered by the trunk, he closed his eyes and clasped his hands behind his head. The narrow margin of grass next to the pond was still green and its sweet tang mixed pleasantly in the warm air with the dusty brown aroma from the adjacent fields.
Cecil’s Story by George Ella Lyon takes place during the Civil war. Cecil’s dad has gone off to fight. In Cecil’s world, this means that everything has changed. In fact, Cecil’s mom has left Cecil with the neighbors while she goes off to find his father.
Do you want some recipes for trouble? You might find them in this book, Beware of Boys by Tony Blundell, where a tricky wolf is served up a taste of his own medicine by an even trickier boy. What happens is this: the boy gets lost in the woods. A wolf captures him and decides to eat him up. “Raw?” asks the boy with a look of surprise. The wolf ponders this, not knowing what the proper etiquette for cooking boy might be.
There was once a man who loved rocks. He would collect them wherever he went, putting them in his pockets, keeping them on shelves in the gas station where he worked. Some folks said that he even had rocks in his head. “Maybe I have,” he said. “Maybe I have.”
But when hard times fell upon the country, the filling station couldn’t provide enough work for the young man anymore, and he roamed around town in search of another job. Regardless of where his job search led him, he always managed to visit the local science museum, where he could visit the rocks.
Are you a tree hugger? If you love trees, then you will love The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. It is definitely one of the most touching books about a tree ever written. It tells a story of a very kind tree who loves a boy very much. As the boy grows, he asks the tree for various favors — a limb to swing on, a shady place to sit under, even a place to carve his girlfriend’s initials into.
Cassidy Rain Berghoff wants very badly to “get a life.” You know, as in, having a social life that would make her teenage years worthwhile. Then, very suddenly, she loses her best friend, and decides to shut herself off entirely from the world. Six months pass, and Rain has succeeded in separating herself.
Then, something scandalous draws her quickly back into her Kansas community. You see, Rain’s Aunt Georgia lives on a nearby Native American camp, and Rain is asked to use her skills as a photographer to interact with the people. Her cultural roots are asking her to connect, while her teenage self is struggling with the fear that she will be hurt again. Check out Rain Is Not My Indian Name by Cynthia Leitich Smith to find out how Rain uses her past as well as her present to find her true self.
Once, when she was a child, Alice told her grandfather that she wanted to do as he had done. She too wanted to travel the world; she wanted to live in a house by the sea. Her grandfather encouraged her to also spread beauty wherever she may go.
When Sarabeth loses her mother very suddenly to a heart attack, she has no where to go, and no other family to take care of her. Her mom’s friends, Cynthia and Billy decide to take her in. So, she moves into their tiny one bedroom apartment. They have a new baby, and Sarabeth finds herself feeling strange. It seems to her that she has become a burden to them, and has interrupted their lives. She wants to leave, but where on earth can she go?
Girlhearts, written by Norma Fox Mazer, a Newberry-Award Honoree, will take you into the life of a daring girl who has to learn to face life when everything has fallen apart.
This is the story of a teenager, Alice, and her mother, Christine, who move to New Zealand. Christine has dragged her daughter there in order to make a new start. Christine is to be employed, she thinks, as a sort of secretary by a rather eccentric old woman, Miss Fairchild. Christine is to write a history of the mansion where they now live. Her job turns out to be more of a housekeeper and nurse than secretary and it is very much in doubt that Alice’s step-father will show up. When he does, he is quite irresponsible, often leaving a mess for Alice and Christine to handle.
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