Secret Santa

It's Christmas and Christmas is Angela's favorite time of the year. Everyone seems to be happier and full of holiday spirit. Of course, the presents are greatly appreciated too! Every year the children of Tapwater Elementary engage in a Secret Santa gift exchange. Last year Angela and Gina were each other's Secret Santa and Angela hopes that they will get to be Secret Santas again. But the odds are against them. Angela and Nanette end up becoming each other's Secret Santa. Christmas is ruined! Angela tries desperately to get someone else to buy Nanette a present but not even Karlene or January want that task. Angela has a brainstorm. She will get Nanette toilet water, other wise known as eau de toilette. Nanette loves that stuff! Suddenly, Angela overhears Nanette tell her clone club that she has bought Angela a spectacular gift. Now Angela has no choice but to get her nemesis something great. Something French. The only question that remains is, will Nanette appreciate it?

Hooray For Chanukah

It's Chanukah and Chanukah is Gina's favorite time of the year. Everyone seems to be happier and full of holiday spirit. Of course, the latkes are pretty good too! Every year the town celebrates the last night of Chanukah at Mapperson's bakery. This year, Angela and the gang are helping Gina carry her Grandmother's gigantic antique menorah to the festivities. Along the way they get hungry and decide to stop for special latke pizza at Abatti's. They ask Uncle Nicky to watch the menorah while they eat. He obliges but ends up gambling it away during one of many dreidel games. By the time the children catch up to the person who won the menorah, it's been pawned. The kids race to the pawnshop but now the menorah has been sold to Spangley Jangles. Angela refuses to give up. They convince Spangley to give them the menorah back. But on their way to Mapperson's they forget the menorah on the bus! Somehow the menorah ends up in Nanette's hands and the Manoirs use it for a chandelier! Angela knows that a miracle is what Chanukah is all about and a miracle is just what Tapwater Springs could use right about now.

Der schöne Brauch, Mitschüler mit einem Geschenk vor Weihnachten zu überraschen, wird auch in Angelas Klasse gepflegt. Und damit jeder weiß, wem er eine Freunde zu bereiten hat, werden Namen gezogen. Dummerweise müssen sich Angela und Nanette gegenseitig beschenken. Angela lässt nichts unversucht, um sich vor dieser Pflicht zu drücken.

In Tapwater Springs wird das hohe jüdischen Fest Chanukah gefeiert. Dazu gehört natürlich die Menorah, der achtarmige Leuchter. Jährlich wird er von Gina Lash gestellt. Onkel Nicky, der auf dieses wertvolle Familienerbstück aufpassen sollte, hat ihn aber verzockt. Jetzt beginnt eine wilde Jagd nach dem guten Stück, die vor dem Haus der Manoirs endet.