Whitehurst, Susan.

Summary: Examines the relationship between the Pilgrims who came to American on the "Mayflower" in 1620 and the Wampanoag Indians who lived in the area, looking at how the Native Americans helped the Englishmen survive in the wilderness.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2002

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 974.4 WHI

Romero, Libby

Summary: "Step on board the Mayflower and meet the amazing crew and passengers, from burly sailors to pilgrims, servants, orphaned children, and animals. Discover who the pilgrims were and why they chose to risk their lives to make the treacherous journey across the Atlantic, relive the ferocious storms as the Mayflower crested gigantic waves, find out what life was really like on board for the 102...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.2 ROM

Grace, Catherine O'Neill

Summary: A recreation of the first Thanksgiving reveals the actual events during the three days that the Wampanoag people and the colonists came together.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2001

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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT US Hist Grace

Hayward, Linda.

Summary: Describes how the first Thanksgiving celebration came to be.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1990

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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E HAY

Lynch, Patrick James

Summary: An illustrated account of the life of John Howland, the young servant who was indentured to Pilgrim John Carver, describes how he embarked on the Mayflower and survived a fall off the ship before helping his ill shipmates by scouting out a safe harbor.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HOW

Lasky, Kathryn.

Summary: Twelve-year-old Mem presents a diary account of the trip she and her family made on the Mayflower in 1620 and their first year in the New World.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1996

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC LAS

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LAS

Nesbit, TaraShea

Summary: "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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC NES

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NES

Newell, Chris

Summary: "Do you know the true story of the Thanksgiving feast at Plimoth? What if you lived in a different time and place? What would you wear? What would you eat? How would your daily life be different? Scholastic's If You Lived... series answers all of kids' most important questions about events in American history. With a question and answer format, kid-friendly artwork, and engaging information,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.4 NEW

Anderson, Joan.

Summary: Recreates the first harvest feast celebrated by the Pilgrims in 1621 using the Pilgrim and Indian actors and the seventeenth-century setting of Plimoth Plantation, a living history museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1984

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 974.4 AND

Messner, Kate

Summary: "Myths about the Mayflower and the Pilgrim's arrival in modern-day America debunked"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.4 MES

Greenwood, Mark

Summary: Describes the transatlantic journey taken by the pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, detailing their hardships until they reached their destination in the New World.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2014

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.4 GRE

Hayward, Linda

Summary: Describes how the first Thanksgiving celebration came to be.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1990

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: J Holiday Hayward

Yomtov, Nelson

Summary: "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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022

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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.4 YOM

Lindsay, David

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.482 LIN

Philbrick, Nathaniel.

Summary: From the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement of New England has become enshrined as our most sacred national myth. Yet, as author Philbrick reveals, the true story of the Pilgrims is much more than the well-known tale of piety and sacrifice; it is a 55-year epic. The Mayflower's religious refugees arrived in Plymouth Harbor during a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US Philbrick

George, Jean Craighead

Summary: Describes how the colonists aboard the Mayflower founded New Plymouth and celebrated their first harvest with a feast of thanksgiving.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1993

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 394.26 GEO

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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: J 394.26 GEO

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: General Society of Mayflower Descendants. 1935

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142 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN Mayflower 1970-08
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Fraser, Rebecca

Summary: From acclaimed historian and biographer Rebecca Fraser comes a vivid narrative history of the Mayflower and of the Winslow family, who traveled to America in search of a new world. The voyage of the Mayflower and the founding of Plymouth Colony is one of the seminal events in world history. But the poorly-equipped group of English Puritans who ventured across the Atlantic in the early autumn...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Hist US Fraser

Mack, Jonathan D.

Summary: "The fascinating story of Stephen Hopkins, perhaps the most important person on board the Mayflower when it sailed from England in 1620. The only member of the expedition who had been across the Atlantic before, as a survivor of the colony at Jamestown, Hopkins played a vital role in bridging the divide of suspicion between the Pilgrims and their Native American neighbors. Without him, these...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOPKINS, STEPHEN MAC

Bangs, Jeremy Dupertuis

Summary: Transcriptions of more than four hundred Native American land conveyances from Plymouth Colony court records are now accessible to researchers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2002

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.373 Bangs

Deetz, James.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.H. Freeman 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.4 DEE

Anderson, Robert Charles

Summary: Contains detailed information, including occupation, genealogy, public service, estate and unusual or interesting facts, about each family or individual who emigrated to Plymouth Colony between 1620 and 1633.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Great Migration Study Project, New England Historic Genealogical Society 2004

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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3744 AND

Holub, Joan.

Contents: What was the first Thanksgiving? -- Puritans -- Sailing to America -- Land! -- A new home -- Making friends -- The first Thanksgiving -- Fun and games -- Trouble -- A Thanksgiving holiday -- Thanksgiving today.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: J 974.4 HOL

Stratton, Eugene Aubrey.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ancestry Pub. 1986

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.02 STR