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1) Da Feast!
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Each summer for the past one hundred years, local residents on an otherwise tranquil block in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn turn their lives upside down for two weeks in order to host the reenactment of a centuries-old religious pageant. The annual feast of San Paulino di Nola has its roots in an archaic fertility rite with exotic pagan undertones. Italians from the Campanese village of Nola, who emigrated to Williamsburg in the 1880's, brought...
2) Ice palace
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A girl and her father help plan the annual winter carnival in Saranac Lake Village, New York, as the girl's uncle and other prisoners work together to build its centerpiece, the ice palace.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A visit to the Spoleto Festival in Umbria on the occasion of its 10th anniversary. Highlights of the film: Don Giovanni: - director Gian Carlo Menotti, conductor Thomas Schippers, set designer Henry Moore; The Stuttgart Ballet: - choreographer John Cranko; Jerzy Grotowski's staging of El Principe Constante by Calderón presented by the Warsaw Lab Theatre, Charles Wadsworth, originator of Chamber Music Concerts at Noon - featuring brilliant young...
Publisher
Omnigraphics
Pub. Date
©1997
Language
English
Description
From the pilgrimage to Mecca to the Wizard of Oz Festival, the new edition of this classic compendium circles the globe describing more than 2,000 holidays, rituals, and other notable occasions. Special features include Millennium coverage, web sites on holidays, sections on U.S. states and territories and U.S. presidents (including major landmarks), domestic and international tourism contact information, new annotated bibliography, updated coverage...
Publisher
UXL
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Alphabetically arranged entries provide descriptions of celebrations around the world of some thirty holidays and festivals, including national and cultural holidays, such as Independence day and New Year's Day, which are commemorated on different days for different reasons in a number of countries.
Author
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From South Korea to Nigeria to the USA, come celebrate festivals throughout the year! People around the world are celebrating. In Australia, it's Christmas in summer with barbecues on the beach. In Thailand, they're celebrating Songkran, the famous Buddhist water festival. Rhyming text and graphic illustrations pair perfectly and invite young readers to explore the world through mesmerizing festivals"--
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the Footsteps of Taytacha follows a group of Quechua-speaking musicians and dancers as they leave their remote villages high in the Andes Mountains of Peru and join thousands of other highlanders on the annual religious pilgrimage to the sacred peaks of Qoyllur-Rití. Quollur-Rití, the largest and most important religious ritual in the southern Andes, occurs only five days out of the year and involves walking both day and night in terrain over...
10) Food truck fest!
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A family prepares for a day at the food truck festival, while at the same time, the food truck crews get ready for the same event, checking recipes, starting to cook, and driving to the festival site.
11) Two of a kind
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
When incredibly smart Felicia Swift goes to Fool's Gold, California, looking for an ordinary life, she runs into the completely unordinary Gideon Boylan and the two learn that they have much more in common than they ever thought.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
Carnival time is big in this small Spanish town in Andalusia. Appropriately described by a local as a 'newspaper', the carnival is a time of dressing up and coming together. The men compose 'spicy' songs about local affairs and sing their social criticisms of national events.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The annual Corn Maze Festival is coming and every day the chickens, cows, and Duck help Farmer Brown--with a few bribes--to create a special Statue of Liberty corn maze, and every night Duck works hard recreating his own surprise.
14) Celebrations!
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
A calendar of celebrations which describes holidays and festivals of all major religions and cultures from around the world. Includes original photography.
15) Make it right!
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Barunga, in the Northern Territory, hosts an annual festival of Aboriginal sport and culture. In 1988, 200 years after the British flag was raised in Sydney, the festival took on a special meaning. Prime Minister Bob Hawke was invited to attend and the Festival organisers had high expectations of a political outcome. Wenten Rubuntja, Chairman of the Central Land Council, Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Chairman of the Northern Land Council, John Ah Kit, Director,...
Author
Series
Heidi Heckelbeck volume 12
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Heidi is excited about Brewster's fall festival, but she catches a cold and her magic may not be enough to make her well in time.
Author
Series
Little Bridge Island volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Jo Wright always swore she'd never step foot on Little Bridge Island - not as long as her nemesis, bestselling author Will Price, is living there. Then Jo is offered an all-expense paid trip to speak and sign at the island's first ever book festival. When she arrives on Little Bridge, Will seems genuinely sorry for his past actions - and more than willing not only to make amends, but prove to Jo that he's a changed man. Things seem to be looking up...
Author
Series
Adventures of Sophie Mouse volume 5
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Sophie helps her mother bake maple treats for the annual Maple Festival in Silverlake Forest. When she notices no one at her mother's stand, she must find a way to attract more visitors"--
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