When the Knoodle family tries to follow their rabbi's advice about giving the greatest gift, everything goes wrong and their Hanukkah seems ruined until the rabbi comes to straighten things out.
Presents eight stories about the Old Testament prophet Elijah, set in a variety of time periods and in places all over the world where Jews have lived.
The people's lodges are cold and dark, and their food is uncooked, so they ask the wise coyote how to get fire from the three evil spirits guarding it on top of a mountain.
Twelve-year-old Jin Mun, working for his father's laundry in San Francisco Chinatown, is shocked to discover that one of his neighbors is a slave girl, forbidden to leave her house.