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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 ROMGrace, 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 GraceGreendeer, Danielle
Summary: Wampanoag children listen as their grandmother tells them the story about how Weeâchumun (the wise Corn) asked local Native Americans to show the Pilgrims how to grow food to yield a good harvest--Keepunumuk--in 1621.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge Publishing 2022
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE GRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GREMcGovern, Ann.
Summary: Questions and answers describe the voyage of the Mayflower and the Pilgrim's first year in the New World.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 1991
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.48 MCGYomtov, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.4 YOMLindsay, 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 LINLasky, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC LASCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LASAnderson, 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.
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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 ANDIsbell, Hannah
Summary: Discusses the life of a Wampanoag Indian who, after living in England and Spain, returned to New England in 1619 and befriended the Pilgrims when they settled in Plymouth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SQUMetaxas, Eric.
Summary: A biography of the Patuxet Indian who, after his capture, escape, and return to his childhood home, helped the Pilgrims establish the colony of Plymouth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rabbit Ears Books 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Holiday MetaxesWhitehurst, 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 WHIAnderson, 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 ANDMessner, 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 MESNesbit, 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 NESNewell, 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 NEWHayward, 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 HAYLynch, 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 HOWJenner, 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 JENDeetz, 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 DEEHolub, 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 HOLStratton, 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 STRGreenwood, 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 HaywardSewall, Marcia.
Summary: Chronicles, in text and illustrations, the day-to-day life of the early Pilgrims in the Plimouth Colony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 1986