Duck for Turkey Day /
Jules, Jacqueline, 1956-
Duck for Turkey Day / Jacqueline Jules ; PICTURES by Kathyrn Mitter. - Paperback edition. - Albert Whitman & Company, 2009 - 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
It's almost Thanksgiving, and Tuyet is excited about the holiday and the vacation from school. There's just one problem: her Vietnamese American family is having duck for Thanksgiving dinner-not turkey! Nobody has duck for Thanksgiving. What will her teacher and the other kids think? To her surprise, Tuyet enjoys her yummy thanksgiving dinner anyhow, and an even bigger surprise is waiting for her at school on Monday. Dinners from roast beef to lamb to enchiladas adorned the Thanksgiving tables of her classmates, but they all had something in common-family! Kids from families with different traditions will enjoy this warm story about "the right way" to celebrate an American holiday.
AD530L Lexile Decoding demand: 82 (very high) Semantic demand: 57 (medium) Syntactic demand: 64 (high) Structure demand: 84 (very high) Lexile
9780807517352
Thanksgiving Day--Fiction.
Vietnamese Americans--Fiction.
Schools--Fiction.
Thanksgiving Day--Juvenile fiction.
Vietnamese Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Schools--Juvenile fiction.
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Duck for Turkey Day / Jacqueline Jules ; PICTURES by Kathyrn Mitter. - Paperback edition. - Albert Whitman & Company, 2009 - 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
It's almost Thanksgiving, and Tuyet is excited about the holiday and the vacation from school. There's just one problem: her Vietnamese American family is having duck for Thanksgiving dinner-not turkey! Nobody has duck for Thanksgiving. What will her teacher and the other kids think? To her surprise, Tuyet enjoys her yummy thanksgiving dinner anyhow, and an even bigger surprise is waiting for her at school on Monday. Dinners from roast beef to lamb to enchiladas adorned the Thanksgiving tables of her classmates, but they all had something in common-family! Kids from families with different traditions will enjoy this warm story about "the right way" to celebrate an American holiday.
AD530L Lexile Decoding demand: 82 (very high) Semantic demand: 57 (medium) Syntactic demand: 64 (high) Structure demand: 84 (very high) Lexile
9780807517352
Thanksgiving Day--Fiction.
Vietnamese Americans--Fiction.
Schools--Fiction.
Thanksgiving Day--Juvenile fiction.
Vietnamese Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Schools--Juvenile fiction.
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