New Year Kid

New Year, New Magic: A Storybook of Wonderful Resolutions What if your New Year's resolution could turn into the most spectacular adventure? 🌟 Calling all young explorers, dream-chasers, and world-changers! This isn't just another book - it's a magical ticket to discovering the superheroes hiding inside YOU. Imagine a world where: Learning patience is more exciting than a treasure hunt Kindness sparkles brighter than any superhero power Imagination can transform ordinary moments into extraordinary adventures Every mistake is just a secret doorway to something amazing Meet our incredible ...

Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade. As he makes the daily trip from his Washington Heights apartment to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, Jordan soon finds himself torn between two worlds - and not really fitting into either one.

How to Be a Family brings listeners along as the Kois girls - witty, solitary, extremely online Lyra and goofy, sensitive, social butterfly Harper - walk through the Kiwi bush, ride bikes to a Dutch school in the pouring rain, battle iguanas in their Costa Rican kitchen, and learn to love a town where everyone knows your name. Meanwhile, Dan interviews neighbors, public officials, and scholars to learn why each of these places work the way they do. Will this trip change the Kois family's lives? Or do families take their problems and conflicts with them wherever we go?

Fireworks and dragons and...a missing girl? Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are in San Francisco, home of the biggest Chinatown outside Asia. They plan to watch the famous Chinese New Year parade and see Miss Chinatown ride by in a giant float. But during the parade, Miss Chinatown disappears, and so does her crown! Can the kids crack the case?

She’s a single mom on the wrong side of forty. He’s a single dad with a mission: convince the love of his life that they won’t turn into pumpkins when the ball drops at midnight! Lillian My kids are away for the weekend, so my best friend convinces me to come to Houston for a New Year’s Eve party. I’m a blue-collar worker busy raising three boys not some cartoon princess, but with a makeover and a new dress, I sure feel like one! There’s even a handsome prince, but when the sun rises on New Year’s Day, I realize he isn’t who he said he was. Martin When I wake up alone after ...

Lila Greer is full of worries. Even the smallest things—from cabbages to cardboard—fill her with dread and What Ifs. So when her family makes a big change—moving to a new town—the worry and What Ifs only grow. What if things go wrong? What if no one likes her? At first, Lila feels right to be worried. In her new home, everything is strange. The new kids, the new smells. Lila feels alone and invisible. But there’s one person who sees her: Lila’s teacher, Ms. Kern.

New year, new beginning--new love? Kate Wood usually spends New Year's Eve with her daughter, but when a group of friends talks her into going to a party with Paul Bryant, she knows things will be different this year. She's just getting settled in small town Charles Town, West Virginia, and falling in love was not one of her resolutions, but Paul is starting to grow on her. Will she take a chance on love? Paul Bryant is struggling to raise his son after his wife's sudden passing. He's lost himself along the way. With the help of his brother and his friends, he just might manage to find ...

Tension and family holidays go together like eggnog and candy canes. When lawyer Anna brings her boyfriend Jason home for the holidays, it's a recipe for family drama. Her parents have high expectations for her fast-track future. And those don't include her hooking up with a kennel worker suffering the results of traumatic brain injury. With a lousy memory and a shaky past, Jason knows he's no prize. But what he and Anna have together is priceless.

The story of "Five Little Dumplings" begins with the five Little Dumplings making their beds as their mother greets them with a cheerful “Happy Lunar New Year!” Their curiosity about the festival is piqued instantly. On their way to Grandma's for the New Year's Feast, they engage in a fun counting game. From lanterns to sticky cakes, they count and have lots of fun. But that's just the start!