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10 best books like Molly's Pilgrim (Barbara Cohen): A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, Cranberry Thanksgiving, Thank You, Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving, The Thanksgiving Door, Gracias The Thanksgiving Turkey, Turk and Runt: A Thanksgiving Comedy, How Many Days to America?: A Thanksgiving Story, Thanksgiving Is for Giving Thanks, Squanto's Journey: The Story of the First Thanksgiving, Over the River and Through the Wood

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
AuthorCharles M. Schulz
ISBN0762427531
Charlie Brown holds a special place in my heart!

I always liked how he thought about others first, and despite continuing criticism (from people he considers friends), was able to find a little joy and happiness in every day!

His Thanksgiving story is as relevant today as it was 50 years...
Cranberry Thanksgiving
AuthorWende Devlin
ISBN0819304980
Today was Thanksgiving, Grandmother's favorite day of the year. The cooking was done and her famous cranberry bread was cooling on the wooden board. Every year Grandmother invited a guest for dinner and allowed Maggie to do the same. "Ask someone poor or lonely," she always said.

She wasn't...
Thank You, Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving
AuthorLaurie 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...
The Thanksgiving Door
AuthorDebby Atwell
ISBN0618240365
When Ed and Ann’s turkey dinner burns, they think their Thanksgiving is ruined. But what appears to be a disaster becomes a blessing in disguise when Ed and Ann unknowingly intrude on an immigrant family’s own Thanksgiving celebration at their new restaurant, The New World Café. Once Grandmother...
Gracias The Thanksgiving Turkey
AuthorJoy Cowley
ISBN0590469770
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...
Turk and Runt: A Thanksgiving Comedy
AuthorLisa Wheeler
ISBN0689847610
Turk's parents are proud of him, the biggest, strongest, most graceful bird at Wishbone Farm."He's a dancer," says his mother.

"He's an athlete," says his father.

"He's a goner," says his little brother, Runt.

But no one ever listens to Runt -- even after people with seasonal...
How Many Days to America?: A Thanksgiving Story
AuthorEve Bunting
ISBN0899195210
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...
Thanksgiving Is for Giving Thanks
AuthorMargaret Sutherland
ISBN0448422867
I realized a few pages in that this book wasn’t about one character. It changed perspective throughout. As I flipped I kept thinking who’s perspective am I in? It wasn’t always clear, because at times there was more than one kid on the page.
I don’t think I’ve ever read a book that changed...
Squanto's Journey: The Story of the First Thanksgiving
AuthorJoseph Bruchac
ISBN0152018174
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...
Over the River and Through the Wood
AuthorLydia Maria Francis Child
ISBN0805038256
While I love and will always love Lydia Maria Francis Child's evocative poem, I rather majorly and utterly despise this particular edition, simply because David Catrow's illustrations are absolutely not to my taste (and that is indeed the understatement of the year). I find them frustrating, aesthetically,...
It's Thanksgiving
AuthorJack Prelutsky
ISBN0688147291
Jack Prelutsky books are a big part of my childhood. IT’S THANKSGIVING reminds me of something I would have checked out of my elementary school library, and judging by its publication date, probably did. I no doubt would have giggled at some of the poems, but, as a child always sensitive to the treatment...
T Is for Turkey
AuthorTanya Lee Stone
ISBN0843125705
We bought "T is for Turkey" by Tanya Lee Stone at the end of the year last year. I kept it away to read before Thanksgiving this year. This book is in alphabet book form as it explains the true thanksgiving story. A school puts on a play to tell the story. The books helps kids celebrate everything from Harvest...
The Perfect Thanksgiving
AuthorEileen Spinelli
ISBN0805065318
"Our smoke alarm is wailing.
Our turkey, burnt as toast.
Dad spills the gravy down his shirt-
a less-than-perfect host".

Enter two families who couldn't be more opposite. Family one seems just perfect-with a plump golden turkey, gorgeous whipped cream swirls atop their pie,...
Oskar and the Eight Blessings
AuthorT.R. Simon
ISBN1596439491
A refugee seeking sanctuary from the horrors of Kristallnacht, Oskar arrives by ship in New York City with only a photograph and an address for an aunt he has never met. It is both the seventh day of Hanukkah and Christmas Eve, 1938. As Oskar walks the length of Manhattan, from the Battery to his new home...
Immigrant Kids
AuthorRussell Freedman
ISBN0140375945
This book written for children about children was very interesting. From 1880-1920, 23 million people immigrated from Europe to the US, many of them children. The book is divided into chapters: At Home, At School, At Work, At Play. Life for immigrant children was hard. Was it actually better than in...
Erandi's Braids
AuthorAntonio Hernandez Madrigal
ISBN0698118855
The yellow dress Erandi wants for her birthday will look beautiful with her long, thick braids. But Mama's fishing net is full of holes, and there isn't enough money to buy both a new net and a birthday dress. The only solution lies with the hair buyers from the city. But Mama's hair isn't nearly as beautiful...
Three Young Pilgrims
AuthorCheryl Harness
ISBN0027426432
In these richly detailed pages, you'll meet three of the young Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower, Bartholomew, Remember, and Mary Allerton.

When Bartholemew, Remember, and Mary Allerton and their parents first step down from the Mayflower after sixty days at sea, they never dream that...
Molly Bannaky
AuthorAlice McGill
On a cold gray morning in 1683, Molly Walsh sat on a stool tugging at the udder of an obstinate cow. When she spilled the milk, she was brought before the court for stealing. Because she could read, Molly escaped the typicalpunishment of death on the gallows. At the age of seventeen, the English dairymaid...
Sarah Morton's Day: A Day In The Life Of A Pilgrim Girl
AuthorKate Waters
ISBN0590474006

I know I read this ages ago but couldn’t remember the details. I like the examination of what the everyday details would have been like for the Plymouth colonists. It struck me as well researched and presented in a very plausible manner to make history “real” to kids.

One thing that...
Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares
AuthorFrank Murphy
ISBN0375806210
A funny, entertaining introduction to Ben Franklin and his many inventions, including the story of how he created the "magic square."

A magic square is a box of nine numbers arranged so that any line of three numbers adds up to the same number, including on the diagonal!

Teachers and...
Franklin's Thanksgiving
AuthorPaulette Bourgeois
With his grandparents away, Franklin is worried that there will be more food for Thanksgiving than his family can possibly eat. When he learns that his teacher and his mother will be having Thanksgiving dinner alone, he quickly invites them to his house as a surprise for his own mother. However, when...
When Jessie Came Across the Sea
AuthorAmy Hest
ISBN0763600946
In an inspiring pairing, Amy Hest and P.J. Lynch create an unforgettable tribute to the immigrant experience.

Jessie lives with her grandmother in a poor village in the valleys of eastern Europe. When, to everyone's surprise, young Jessie is chosen by the village rabbi to travel to America,...
If You Sailed On The Mayflower
AuthorAnn McGovern
ISBN0590451618
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.

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