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LAND HO!                                                             The Pilgrims Come to a New Land Lowry 5th grade classes are going back in history to when America began her great adventure! Like any good treasure hunter, you need some clues as to what it was like to be alive at that time: First - A list of books available in the Lowry Media Center: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eating the Plates : a Pilgrim book of food and manners / Lucille Recht Penner ; with illustrations selected by the author. New York : Aladdin, 1997, c1991. Call Number: 394.1 Pen -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The First Thanksgiving / by Jean Craighead George ; illustrated by Thomas Locker. New York : Philomel Books, 1993. Call Number: 394.2 Geo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The House on Stink Alley : a story about the Pilgrims in Holland / by F. N. Monjo ; illustrated by Robert Quackenbush. New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [c1977]. Call Number: F Mon -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A journey to the New World : the diary of Remember Patience Whipple : Mayflower/Plimoth Colony, 1620 / by Kathryn Lasky. New York : Scholastic, c1995. Call Number: F LAS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Massachusettes Colony / by Dennis B. Fradin; consultant, Lynn Parisi Chicago : Children's Press c1987 Call Number:  974.4 Fra -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Mayflower Compact / by Judith Lloyd Yero Washington, DC : Random House, c2006 Call Number:  974.4 Yer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pilgrims:  A non-fiction companion to "Thanksgiving on Thursday" / by Mary Pope Osborne & Natalie Pope Boyce New York : Random House, c2005 974.4 Osb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Pilgrims and Me / by Judy Donnelly ; illustrated by Maryann Cocca-Leffler. New York : Grosset & Dunlap, 2002. Call Number: 974.4 Don -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Pilgrims of Plymouth / written and illustrated by Marcia Sewall. New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 1996. Call Number: 974.4 Sew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Plymouth : Pilgrims' Story of Survival / Linda R. Wade. Vero Beach, FL : Rourke, 1991. Call Number: 974.4 Wad -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Plymouth Thanksgiving / written and illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. New York : Doubleday 1967. Call Number: 973.2 Wei -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priscilla Alden and the First Thanksgiving / by Alice Benjamin Boynton ; pictures by Christa Kieffer. Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Silver Burdett, c1990. Call Number: B Ald -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sarah Morton's Day : a day in the life of a pilgrim girl / by Kate Waters ; photographs by Russ Kendall. New York : Scholastic, c1989. Call Number: 974.4 Wat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Squanto and the First Thanksgiving / by Teresa Celsi Austin, Texas : Steck-Vaughn, c1990, 1992 Call Number:  B Squ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrim / by Clyde Robert Bulla. New York : Scholastic, c1954. Call Number: B Squ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Story of the Mayflower Compact. / Illustrated by Darrell Wiskur. Chicago, Childrens Press [1967]. Call Number: 973.2 ric -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Turkeys, Pilgrims, and Indian Corn : the story of the Thanksgiving symbols / by Edna Barth ; illustrated by Ursula Arndt. New York : Clarion Books c1975. Call Number: 394.2 Bar -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Voyage of the Mayflower / by Allison Lassieur Mankato, MN : Capstone, c2006 Call Number:  974.4 Las -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Second - Web sites to help you learn: LIFE ON PLYMOUTH PLANTATION   Pilgrim Timeline: Read more about Plimoth Colony: Third - Valuable resource books available outside the Lowry Media Center: Accorsi, William. Friendship’s First Thanksgiving. Holiday House. 1992. Gowler Greene, Rhond. The Very First Thanksgiving Day. Atheneum. 2002. Hayward, Linda. The First Thanksgiving. Random House. 1990. Jackson, Garnet. The First Thanksgiving. Cartwheel Books. 2001. Krauss Melmed, Laura. This First Thanksgiving Day: A Counting Book. HarperCollins. 2001. McGovern, Ann. The Pilgrims’ First Thanksgiving. Scholastic. 1993. Waters, Kate. On the Mayflower: Voyage of the Ship’s Apprentice & a Passenger Girl. Scholastic. 1999. Waters, Kate. Samuel Eaton’s Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy. Scholastic. 1996. Waters, Kate. Giving Thanks: The 1621 Harvest Feast. Scholastic. 2001. Fourth - Other stories about coming to America: Bunting, Eve. Dreaming of America: An Ellis Island Story. Troll Communications. 2001. Bunting, Eve. How Many Days to America? A Thanksgiving Story. Clarion Books. 1990.

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