Shante Keys and the New Year’s Peas by Gail Piernas-Davenport, Marion Eldridge (Illustrator)

Shanté Keys loves New Year's Day! But while Grandma fixed chitlins, baked ham, greens, and cornbread, she forgot the black-eyed peas! Oh no―it'll be bad luck without them! So Shanté sets out to borrow some from the neighbors.