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Addie Mills stories volume 2
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English
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Addie's Thanksgiving gesture toward a crochety old man enriches both their lives.
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English
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Learn more about the history of the feast that started off as a harvest celebration and has now become a national holiday.
After their first harvest in 1621, the Pilgrims at Plymouth shared a three-day feast with their Native American neighbors. Of course, the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag didn’t know it at the time, but they were making history.
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Baby-sitters little sister. Main series volume 115
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English
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From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation!
The star of the show has escaped!Karen's class has won a real, live turkey in a Thanksgiving contest! Of course they do not want to eat him. They will find him a good home. But in the meantime, they want him to star in the school's Thanksgiving assembly. The turkey has other plans, though. He wants to run away! Can Karen catch...
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Baby-sitters little sister. Main series volume 13
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English
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Karen is understandably disappointed when the part she is given in the school's Thanksgiving pageant is that of the turkey, so she concocts a plan to win everyone's attention.
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English
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The story of the first Thanksgiving is so familiar to us, yet at the same time it's surrounded in mystery. Who were the Pilgrims and Indians that are said to have shared a feast so important that we celebrate it as an annual holiday? Engaging text and full-color images will transport readers to the Plymouth Colony, and they will learn about the hardships experienced by the Pilgrims in attempting to build a successful colony. They will also investigate...
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Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Describes the history and activities of the American holiday of Thanksgiving Day.
Examines numerous competing claims for the first Thanksgiving, including the traditional story of the feast shared by the Pilgrims and Native Americans in 1621 in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Paints a fascinating picture of the holiday and its changing meanings throughout American history.
10) Pilgrims
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English
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This book talks about what the first Thanksgiving feast was, how and when it became a holiday. It also explains who the pilgrims were, why they came to America and their struggles and triumphs as colonists in the New World.
11) Fear of falling
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Vet volunteers volume 9
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Twelve-year-old David has conflicting feelings when his father, who taught him to ride the horses he loves so much, returns to spend Thanksgiving Day with the family after being gone for a year.
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Main Street (Ann M. Martin) volume 2
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English
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Flora worries about her first Thanksgiving without her parents, while Ruby worries about getting a part in the school musical, and their new friends, Olivia and Nikki, are adjusting to big changes in their families.
14) Dash
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Dog diaries volume 5
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"An English Springer Spaniel's tale of the Mayflower voyage and the first Thanksgiving at Plymouth Colony"--
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English
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"Plymouth Rock has long stood as a symbol of the Pilgrims' journey to and settlement in America. But how much of the story surrounding it is true? What did the Pilgrims' arrival mean to the Wampanoag people who were already living there? What were the long-lasting effects of the interactions between the two groups? How did a seaside rock come to be associated with the Pilgrims' landing, and was it really part of their story at all? Readers will find...
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Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
c2000
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English
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In 1934 Kit finds that she has hard lessons to learn about the Depression both at home, where she is helping her mother run a boarding house while her father looks for a new job, and at school, where a fight spoils the preparations for the Thanksgiving pageant.
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Mallory volume 28
Publisher
Darby Creek
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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After having an awful Halloween, Mallory organizes a Thanksgiving food drive at her school, but it is harder than she expects and she has to consider whether she is doing it for the right reasons.
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