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."--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2022

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

Allegra, Mike.

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

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALL

Anderson, Laurie Halse.

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

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

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

Kiernan, Denise

Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Castle and The Girls of Atomic City comes the fascinating story of America's national day of thanks and of the tenacious and inspiring Sarah Josepha Hale, a nineteenth-century woman who made establishing this holiday her life's mission-one brought to fruition by the wise support of Abraham Lincoln"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.2649 KIE

Silverman, 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

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

Heiligman, Deborah.

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

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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2006

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

Hines, Gary.

Summary: Young Tad Lincoln is excited about the new national holiday until he learns that the cook plans to serve Jack the turkey as the main course for Thanksgiving dinner.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2003

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC HIN

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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1984

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 974.4 AND

Gioia, Robyn.

Contents: The world in 1565 -- Uncharted lands -- Spain in the 1560s -- Florida in the 1560s -- The Timucua, St. Augustine's Native Americans -- The founding of St. Augustine, 1565 -- Day of thanksgiving -- The site today -- Cocido (Spanish stew).

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pineapple Press 2006

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 975.9 Gioia

Carlstrom, Nancy White

Summary: A collection of poems about one family's activities on Thanksgiving Day, including pondering the history behind the holiday, welcoming visiting relatives, praying for others, enjoying the good food, and giving thanks at the end of the day.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 1999

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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: J 811 CAR

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC CAR

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