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Indians of North America First contact with Europeans Massachusetts Massachusetts Massachusetts History New Plymouth, 1620-1691 Massachusetts History New Plymouth, 1620-1691 Juvenile literature Mayflower (Ship) Mayflower (Ship) Juvenile literature Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) Juvenile literature Thanksgiving Day Thanksgiving Day Juvenile literatureGrace, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2001
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT US Hist GraceRomero, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.2 ROMWhitehurst, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 974.4 WHIDeetz, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.H. Freeman 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.4 DEELynch, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HOWNewell, 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,...
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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 NEWMessner, Kate
Summary: "Myths about the Mayflower and the Pilgrim's arrival in modern-day America debunked"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.4 MESHayward, Linda.
Summary: Describes how the first Thanksgiving celebration came to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1990
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E HAYGreenwood, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.4 GREHayward, Linda
Summary: Describes how the first Thanksgiving celebration came to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1990
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: J Holiday HaywardLindsay, David
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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 LINAnderson, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1984
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 974.4 ANDPestana, Carla Gardina
Summary: "On the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower landing and the establishment of Plymouth Plantation, Carla Gardina Pestana offers an intimate look at life in the settlement. Hardly the isolated outpost of myth, in Pestana's telling Plymouth is revealed as a vibrant place of meeting, with strong connections to the seventeenth-century colonial world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.4 PESStratton, Eugene Aubrey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ancestry Pub. 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.02 STRPhilbrick, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.22 PHICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US PhilbrickDavis, Kenneth C.
Summary: Questions and answers present information about who the Pilgrims were, how and why they came to America on the Mayflower, and what happened in the colony of New Plymouth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.4 DAVPhilbrick, Nathaniel.
Summary: When English Separatists flee to Holland, Dutch urban life corrupts their children and weakens their families. Convinced that God is leading them to the New World, these devout Pilgrims bravely cross the Atlantic. But after violent storms carry them far north of Hudson's River, they fight icy New England winds to build crude shelters. When half die of starvation and cold that winter, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.22 Philbrick 2006Fraser, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Hist US FraserBunker, Nick.
Summary: The Pilgrims were entrepreneurs as well as evangelicals, political radicals as well as Christian idealists. "Making Haste from Babylon" tells their story in unrivaled depth, from their roots in religious conflict and village strife at home to their final creation of a permanent foothold in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.4 BUNBangs, Jeremy Dupertuis
Summary: Transcriptions of more than four hundred Native American land conveyances from Plymouth Colony court records are now accessible to researchers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2002
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.373 BangsMack, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOPKINS, STEPHEN MACSilverman, David J.
Summary: Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony's founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story. In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin (Massasoit), and Plymouth's governor, John Carver, declared their people's friendship for each other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019