Janet S. Wong

• Sep-2000
• / Christian
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Celebrating the Chinese New Year

A young boy looks forward to Chinese New Year - also known as the Lunar New Year, the day of the first new moon. It is a time of hope, and you don't have to be Chinese to celebrate it! His best friend, Glenn, w...

• Sep-2000
• / General Fiction
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These are the gifts brought across the ocean to Korea: Leather gloves. An apron with pockets like flowers. A book with pictures and simple words. What is given in return? Simple gifts like these--and so much more.
Janet S. Wong invites us to join...

• Mar-2001
• / General Fiction
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An exuberant rhyme follows Mommy who is in a cranky mood as she attempts to read her happy and playful Baby to sleep, but she falls asleep instead, in a charming picture book filled with captivating illustrations....

• Jun-2002
• / General Fiction
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No one wants Chinese food on the Fourth of July, I say. We're in apple-pie America, and my parents are cooking chow mein! . . . They just don't get it. Americans do not eat Chinese food on the Fourth of July. Right?
Shocked that her parents are c...

• Jun-2002
• / General Fiction
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A child experiences the sights and sounds of morning--from a bee buzzing outside to the noise of the awakening household to the flurry before Mommy and Daddy leave for work. Buzz celebrates the warm familiarity of the family routine, as well as the c...

• Jul-2002
• / General Fiction
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You have to write! It's a class assignment. But you have nothing to write about. All the other kids seem to have something to tell because they start in right away. What can you do? Stop and think. No one else can tell your stories -- about your fami...

• Sep-2004
• / General Fiction
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Alex first learned to play chess when he was four years old. He loved it. He loved the pieces, the challenge, and the sweet taste that winning left in his mouth. He loved it until he played a chess game with moldy old Uncle Hooya...and lost. Then Ale...

• Apr-2005
• / General Fiction
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It's a hide-and-seek day! Where's the best hiding place? Here? Or here? Or maybe here! Better find one lickety-split (. . . one . . . two . . . ) because Daddy is counting (. . . three . . . four . . . ) while cookies are baking ( . . . five . . . si...

• Mar-2007
• / General Fiction
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Come explore yoga in a new way with TWIST, a collection of sixteen original poems sure to inspire even the youngest yogi! Feel the damp soil beneath you as Cobra, and grab hold of a star as Half-Moon. From Low Crow to Eagle and from Triangle to Tree,...

• Aug-2008
• / General Fiction
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There are a few things about your best friend that you can only learn when you see where he's from Minn knew that Jake was from the city. But she didn't know that his grandmother was Korean. That he liked taking bubble baths. That his brother, Soup,...

• Sep-2008
• / General Fiction
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A surprising friendshipDo you ever feel like you've somehow lost your true best friend? Minn feels this way. So does Jake. But Minn and Jake have no intention of being friends. Minn's a string bean. Jake's a shrimp. Minn's a girl. Jake's a boy. And i...

• May-2009
• / General Fiction
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It takes time to settle into a house, to learn to love it right, to make it feel homegrown. After the boxes are unpacked and the books are shelved (alphabetically), all a young girl wants to do is settle into her house. Grandmom says that it takes ti...

• Jul-2010
• / General Fiction
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Would you cheat to be popular?

Rolly Maloo is the most popular girl in school. Jenna would love to be her friend. So when Rolly asks Jenna to help cheat on a test, Jenna agrees -- and gets caught. Should she tell on Rolly Maloo? Would you?
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• Mar-2011
• / General Fiction
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