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1) Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun's Thanksgiving story

Author

Greendeer, Danielle

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle, Local Library Checkout Only, Picture

Description

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"Wampanoag children listen as their grandmother tells them the story about how Weeâchumun (the wise Corn) asked local Native Americans to show the newcomers how to grow food to yield a good harvest--Keepunumuk--in 1621"--

2) The Thanksgiving story

Author

Dalgliesh, Alice

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1

Formats

Book, Local Library Checkout Only, Picture

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This little book tells why we have a day called Thanksgiving and how it all came about. It relates the story of a Pilgrim family and their voyage, planting, harvesting of crops, and giving thanks for G

3) Beheld: a novel

Author

Nesbit, TaraShea

Pub. Date

2020.

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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"Ten years after the Mayflower pilgrims arrived on rocky, unfamiliar soil, Plymouth is not the land its residents had imagined. Seemingly established on a dream of religious freedom, in reality the town is led by fervent puritans who prohibit the residents from living, trading, and worshipping as they choose. By the time an unfamiliar ship, bearing new colonists, appears on the horizon one summer morning, Anglican outsiders have had enough."--Provided...

4) A journey to the New World: the diary of Remember Patience Whipple

Author

Lasky, Kathryn

Series

Dear America

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4

Description

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Arriving in the New World after a grueling Atlantic crossing, Mayflower passenger Mem cares for her dying fellow pilgrims while befriending Native American Squanto, who assists her family through a first year of tragedy and thanksgiving.

5) The journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce, a Pilgrim boy

Author

Rinaldi, Ann

Series

My name is America
Dear America

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5

Description

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A fourteen-year-old indentured servant keeps a journal of his experiences on the Mayflower and during the building of Plymouth Plantation in 1620 and 1621.

6) Pilgrim Cat

Author

Peacock, Carol Antoinette

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1

Description

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A young pilgrim girl and the cat she discovers on the Mayflower voyage begin their life together in the Plymouth settlement. Her cat disappears the next summer, but when she reappears the reason for the absence becomes clear.

7) Three young pilgrims

Author

Harness, Cheryl

Pub. Date

1995, c1992

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1

Formats

Book, Local Library Checkout Only, Picture

Description

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Mary, Remember, and Bartholomew are among the pilgrims who survive the harsh early years in America and see New Plymouth grow into a prosperous colony.

8) One little, two little, three little pilgrims

Author

Hennessy, B. G

Series

Picture Puffins

Formats

Book, Local Library Checkout Only

Description

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Counts things associated with a harvest feast in colonial Plymouth Colony, including pilgrims, Wampanoags, nuts, squash, and, of course, turkeys.

9) Rush Revere and the brave pilgrims: time-travel adventures with exceptional Americans

Author

Limbaugh, Rush H

Series

Rush Revere volume 1

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7

Formats

Book, CD

Description

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Substitute middle-school history teacher Rush Revere takes his students back in time to experience American history as it happens aboard the Mayflower and on Plymouth Plantation.

10) Why we have Thanksgiving

Author

Hillert, Margaret

Series

A Follett Just beginning-to-read book
Modern Curriculum Press beginning-to-read

Pub. Date

c1982

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1

Description

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Relates the journey of the Pilgrims to America and describes their struggles during the first year that culminated in the celebration of the first Thanksgiving.

11) Constance and the dangerous crossing: a Mayflower survival story

Author

Gilbert, Julie

Series

Girls survive

Pub. Date

[2021]

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2

Description

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In 1620 an orphaned fifteen-year-old servant girl joins Separatists seeking religious freedom and others aboard the Mayflower as they undertake a perilous journey to the New World.

12) Molly's pilgrim

Author

Cohen, Barbara

Series

Molly

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1

Description

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Told to make a Pilgrim doll for the Thanksgiving display at school, Molly is embarassed when her mother tries to help her out by creating a doll dressed as she herself was dressed before leaving Russia to seek religious freedom.

13) The littlest pilgrim

Author

Dougherty, Brandi

Pub. Date

[2008]

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1

Formats

Book, Local Library Checkout Only

Description

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All the other villagers tell Mini that she is too small to help them with their chores, but she is not too small to be kind to another girl she meets.

14) The landing of the Pilgrims

Author

Daugherty, James

Series

Landmark

Pub. Date

[1981] c1950

Description

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In order to escape religious persecution, a group of English Separatists set sail for America in 1620, hoping to establish a new colony.

15) Almost home: a story based on the life of the Mayflower's Mary Chilton

Author

Lawton, Wendy

Series

Daughters of the faith series

Pub. Date

c2003

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5

Description

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While making the pilgrimage from Holland to America in 1620 with other English Separatists, teenaged Mary Chilton endures many hardships that test her faith in God.

16) Pete the cat: the first Thanksgiving

Author

Dean, Kim

Series

Pete the cat picture books (James Dean)

Pub. Date

2013.

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1

Formats

Book, Local Library Checkout Only, Picture

Description

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Pete the Cat participates in a school play about the first Thanksgiving. He makes new friends and learns a lot about what it was like to be a Pilgrim and live off the land, as well as to be thankful for everything. Lift the flaps to see what other adventures and facts came about during the play.

17) Karen's pilgrim

Author

Martin, Ann M

Series

Baby-sitters little sister. Main series volume 91

Pub. Date

c1997

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1

Description

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Karen wants her report on Thanksgiving to be extra special. She plans to show the class some great souvenirs from a family trip to Plimoth Plantation. But Karen's best enemy wants to ruin Karen's project. How will Karen ever make her report special now?

18) Problems in Plymouth

Author

Hering, Marianne

Series

Imagination station volume 6

Pub. Date

[2011]

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1

Description

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When time-traveling cousins Patrick and Beth use the Imagination Station to go to Plymouth Colony in 1621 hoping to find Hugh and return him to his own time, they meet William Bradford, Myles Standish, and Squanto.