1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving
10 best books like 1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving (Catherine O'Neill Grace): Thank You, Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving, Gracias The Thanksgiving Turkey, How Many Days to America?: A Thanksgiving Story, This First Thanksgiving Day: A Counting Story, Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message, Squanto's Journey: The Story of the First Thanksgiving, Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past, Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: a Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix, Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America, I Lost My Tooth In Africa
| Author | Laurie Halse Anderson |
We the people of the United States... Almost Lost Thanksgiving Yes. That's right! Way back when "skirts were long and hats were tall" Americans were forgetting Thanksgiving, and nobody seemed to care! Thankfully, Sarah Hale appeared. More steadfast than Plymouth Rock, this lady editor knew the holiday...
| Author | Joy Cowley |
| ISBN | 0590469770 |
Text-to-World
Somewhere in the world, at this exact moment, there is a little boy or girl living with his grandparents and aunt, waiting for his or her father or mother to come home from work. In this light- hearted, realistic fiction book, “Gracias, The Thanksgiving Turkey,” this is part...
| Author | Eve Bunting |
| ISBN | 0899195210 |
In my class this book was more relevant that it was when I was growing up. Many of my children were coming into our counry to escape the violence and hatred of their race or religion in the country of their birth. So many of my students lived with other family until they were able to get a place of their own. These...
This First Thanksgiving Day: A Counting Story
| Author | Laura Krauss Melmed |
Celebrate the very first Thanksgiving in this exuberant counting story from best-selling author Laura Krauss Melmed. From I dressed in linen to 10 making baskets, this rollicking verse shows Wampanoag and Pilgrim friends preparing for and sharing a wonderful Thanksgiving feast.
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| Author | Jake Swamp |
| ISBN | 1880000547 |
The new addition to our morning devotional . . . The Thanksgiving Address of my people, adapted into children's literature by Chief Jake Swamp, with beautiful illustrations by Erwin Printup, Jr., is breathing the new life of gratitude into our daily round in bright and peaceful and simple and truthful...
| Author | Joseph Bruchac |
| ISBN | 0152018174 |
In 1620 an English ship called the Mayflower landed on the shores inhabited by the Pokanoket people, and it was Squanto who welcomed the newcomers and taught them how to survive in the rugged land they called Plymouth. He showed them how to plant corn, beans, and squash, and how to hunt and fish. And when...
In 1991, mountain climbers on the Niederjoch Glacier on the Italian-Austrian border came across something unexpected: a body. It had been a very warm summer, and five bodies had already turned up in the area. But something here was different. The materials found with the body suggested it might be very...
| Author | Gary Golio |
| ISBN | 0618852794 |
Jimi Hendrix was many things: a superstar, a rebel, a hero, an innovator. But first, he was a boy named Jimmy who loved to draw and paint and listen to records. A boy who played air guitar with a broomstick and longed for a real guitar of his own. A boy who asked himself a question: Could someone paint pictures...
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America
| Author | Carole Boston Weatherford |
| ISBN | 0807530174 |
His white teacher tells her all-black class, You’ll all wind up porters and waiters. What did she know? Gordon Parks is most famous for being the first black director in Hollywood. But before he made movies and wrote books, he was a poor African American looking for work. When he bought a camera, his...
| Author | Penda Diakité |
| ISBN | 0439662265 |
Coretta Scott King Honor author/artist Baba Wague Diakite and his 12-year-old daughter, Penda, create a charming, original adventure story about losing a first tooth while visiting family in Mali.
More than anything, Amina wants to lose her loose tooth while visiting her family in Mali,...
| Author | Esther Drill |
| ISBN | 0671041576 |
Deal With It! offers a whole new approach for dealing with your life as a girl. It's a resource to help you learn about, laugh about, and figure out the stuff you go through on your way through life. It won't tell you what to do, because you'll need to decide that for yourself. But whether you're wondering...
| Author | Kate Waters |
| ISBN | 0613012658 |
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| Author | Matt Tavares |
| ISBN | 0763632244 |
Matt Tavares hits one out of the park with this powerful tale of a kid from the segregated south who would become baseball’s home-run king.
Before he was Hammerin’ Hank, Henry Aaron was a young boy grow ing up in Mobile, Alabama, with what seemed like a foolhardy dream: to be a big-league baseball...
| Author | Scott Reynolds Nelson |
Who was the real John Henry? The story of this legendary African-American figure has come down to us in so many songs, stories, and plays, that the facts are often lost. Historian Scott Nelson brings John Henry alive for young readers in his personal quest for the true story of the man behind the myth. Nelson...
| Author | Simon James |
| ISBN | 0756606519 |
Full-color photos. "An excellent glossy catalogue of entertaining information about a civilization of antiquity. Family life, household effects, cosmetics, sports, children's dress and games--all these and more are on display in eye-filling spreads. Either read chronologically or browsed...
| Author | Don Brown |
| ISBN | 1596436948 |
One of School Library Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of 2011
One of Horn Book's Best Nonfiction Books of 2011
On the ten year anniversary of the September 11 tragedy, a straightforward and sensitive book for a generation of readers too young to remember that terrible day.
The...
| Author | Christine King Farris |
| ISBN | 0545035376 |
Martin Luther King Jr.'s sister, Christine, recounts the day of the March and his 'I Have A Dream Speech' in Washington D.C. I listened to this on audiobook and I was able to finish it in under twenty minutes, which was nice, and I'm glad I did because there were pieces from that day inserted into the audiobook...
| Author | Ann McGovern |
| ISBN | 0590451618 |
This gets an "amazing" because my kids were on the edge of the couch listening to this. They spent three nights in a row talking to their dad about it at dinner and it still comes up every now and then. Even the 5-yr-old enjoyed it and has been able to talk about it.
This is just a brief overview of the...
When Christopher Columbus landed on the island of San Salvador in 1492, what he discovered were the Taino Indians. Told from a young Taino boy’s point of view, this is a story of how the boy tried to warn his people against welcoming the strangers, who seemed more interested in golden ornaments than...
| Author | Simon J. Ortiz |
| ISBN | 0892390417 |
I read the 40th Anniversary edition which includes what I believe to be an added note from the author, Simon J. Ortiz He gives us a summary of the history of the People (or what many think of as Native Americans). This book is the perfect mentor text to introduce young students to the struggles of the People...
| Author | Stephanie Sammartino McPherson |
Approaching its one-hundredth anniversary in 2012, the 1912 tragedy of the sinking of theTitanic still looms large in the public imagination, as attested by numerous books, films, and exhibitions. Through a straightforward account of events both before and after the largest ship in the world hit...
Into the Unknown: How Great Explorers Found Their Way by Land, Sea, and Air
| Author | Stewart Ross |
| ISBN | 0763649481 |
Drystan - I thought it was great. I would give it 5 stars. My favourite story was about the Appollo 11 moon landing. I liked this best because I can't imagine building a straight, big rocket that would reach the moon. I thought that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin achieved their dream by travelling to the...
Who Has What?: All About Girls' Bodies and Boys' Bodies
| Author | Robie H. Harris |
| ISBN | 0763629316 |
The trusted, New York Times best-selling author of It's Perfectly Normal presents a charming and reassuring picture book series for preschoolers.
Young children are curious about almost everything. Asking questions is one of many ways they learn about themselves and the world around them....
Coming to America: The Story of Immigration
| Author | Betsy Maestro |
| ISBN | 0590441523 |
Coming to America: The Story of Immigration vividly illustrates the journey of immigrants to the United States, dating from the Ice Age to present day. It is ideal for multicultural integration because it features immigrants from may different countries and ethnic backgrounds.
I used this...
