Anderson, Laurie Halse.

Summary: Relates how Sarah Hale, a magazine editor and author, persuaded President Lincoln to transform Thanksgiving Day into a national holiday.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2002

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: J 394.26 And

Allegra, Mike.

Summary: Presents how Sarah Josepha Hale fought to make Thanksgiving a national holiday.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman 2012

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALL

Kiernan, Denise

Summary: "All across the world, among hundreds of cultures, over centuries, people have come together to give thanks. But in America, we didn't have an official Thanksgiving holiday until the 1800s. The holiday Americans know today exists because of a woman named Sarah Josepha Hale, a spirited letter-writing campaign, a sympathetic president, and a civil war."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J394.2649 KIE

Heiligman, Deborah.

Summary: Tells the history behind Thanksgiving and the traditional ways it, and similar harvest festivals, are celebrated all over the world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2006

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Holiday Heiligman

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

Copies Available at Interlochen

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

Lassieur, Allison

Summary: This encyclopedia offers readers the chance to explore the 63 national parks in the United States and its territories. Alongside photos of the parks, the text highlights each park's history, points of interest, and things to do. Features include glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopedias, an imprint of Abdo Reference 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J917.3 LAS

Brown, Monica

Summary: A powerful and accesible bilingual picture book that highlights "the power and impact of ordinary but dedicated citizens." Every day, thousands of farmworkers harvested the food that ended up on kitchen tables all over the country. But at the end of the day, when the workers sat down to eat, there were only beans on their own tables. Then Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez teamed up. Together they...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BRO

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BRO