Alex's Good Fortune

by Benson Shum (Author) Benson Shum (Illustrator)

Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade

Celebrate Chinese New Year with this sweet story of friendship and family!

In this story designed to engage early readers, charming characters combine with simple text, lively illustrations, and laugh-out-loud humor to help boost kids' confidence and create lifelong readers!

Chinese New Year is the most important holiday for Alex and her family, so it's even more special when she gets to share her favorite traditions with her best friend, Ethan. Together, they join the Chinese New Year parade and get to help make the dragon dance. Then they prepare for the festivities by tidying up, decorating, and making dumplings. After that, it's time to open red envelopes, eat a great big feast, and enjoy the lantern fesival! Complete with fun facts about the holiday in the back of the book, young readers will want to revisit this story again and again.

Exciting, easy-to-read books are the stepping stone a young reader needs to bridge the gap between being a beginner and being fluent.

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Benson Shum
Benson Shum is an author-illustrator who enjoys creating and telling stories through animation and illustration. He is originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, but now lives in sunny southern California.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780593222935
Lexile Measure
580
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Publication date
December 29, 2020
Series
-
BISAC categories
JUV017080 - Juvenile Fiction | Holidays & Celebrations | Other, Non-Religious
JUV012060 - Juvenile Fiction | Legends, Myths, Fables | Asian
JUV074000 - Juvenile Fiction | Diversity & Multicultural
Library of Congress categories
Friendship
Picture books
Families
Family life
Best friends
Chinese New Year
Holidays

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