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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
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 974.4 WHIRomero, 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 ROMLynch, 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 HOWHayward, 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 HaywardGrace, 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 GracePhilbrick, 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: Hist US PhilbrickHayward, 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 HAYFraser, 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 BUNPestana, 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 PESNewell, 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 NEWStratton, 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 STRHarness, Cheryl.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bradbury Press 1992
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E HARMcKenzie, Robert Tracy.
Summary: A narrative history of the first Thanksgiving discusses its relationship to national and spiritual identity and works as a guide to the interplay of historical thinking and Christian reflection.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Intervarsity Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.2649 MCKGeorge, Jean Craighead
Summary: Describes how the colonists aboard the Mayflower founded New Plymouth and celebrated their first harvest with a feast of thanksgiving.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1993
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 394.26 GEOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: J 394.26 GEOHarness, Cheryl.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 1992
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE HARNesbit, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC NESCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NESAnderson, 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 ANDGreenwood, 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 GREHolub, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: J 974.4 HOLJenner, Caryn
Summary: "On September 6, 1620, the Mayflower ship headed across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World. Sixty-six days later, land was sighted. Now you can imagine you were there ... More than 100 passengers boarded the Mayflower to make their home in the unknown land of America. They became known as the Pilgrims. Meet the men, women, and children who braved the voyage, and read their first hand accounts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kingfisher 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.402 JENHolub, Joan.
Summary: Describes how the Pilgrims at Plymouth shared a three-day feast with their Native American neighbors after their first harvest in 1621, establishing a tradition that would become a national holiday.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JT US Hist What HolubOsborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: Explains what life was like and the first Thanksgiving at Plymouth Colony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005