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10 best books like The Thanksgiving Story (Alice Dalgliesh): A Turkey for Thanksgiving, Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving, And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?, Toliver's Secret, Walk The World's Rim, The Secret of the Sealed Room: A Mystery of Young Ben Franklin, North American Indians, Skippack School, The Happy Day, Anatole and the Cat

A Turkey for Thanksgiving
AuthorEve Bunting
ISBN0395742129
This story is an example of what you say matters. Choosing our words can be a great act of kindness. I know personally that I can get frustrated at how my words come out not as I meant them and someone misunderstands me. Communication is the most difficult thing and choosing our words carefully takes energy....
Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving
AuthorEric Metaxas
ISBN0849958644
This entertaining and historical story shows that the actual hero of the Thanksgiving was neither white nor Indian, but God. In 1608, English traders came to Massachusetts and captured a 12-year old Indian, Squanto, and sold him into slavery. He was raised by Christians and taught faith in God. Ten...
And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?
AuthorJean Fritz
ISBN0698113519
I remember having to read And Then What Happened Paul Revere? by Jean Fritz when I was in elementary school. It was one of a number of books we had to read when we were learning about Revere and his contemporaries. While the book did teach me a great deal about the life of Revere I found it's saccharine cheerfulness...
Toliver's Secret
AuthorEsther Wood Brady
ISBN0679848045
I read this book aloud to my children. It is an historical fiction adventure set in New York in the 1700s.

Ten year-old Ellen Toliver is a meek and mild girl, who is often bullied by another girl named Dicey. Grandfather encourages Ellen to stand up for herself and talk back to Dicey, but Mother...
Walk The World's Rim
AuthorBetty Baker
ISBN1887840222
Couldn't sleep last night so I read this straight through. Combines known history of the survivors of disastrous 1527 expedition from Cuba to explore Florida and find wealth. Of over 600 men only 4 survived, including Cabeza de Vaca, two others and a black slave, Esteban. This YA novel is from the perspective...
The Secret of the Sealed Room: A Mystery of Young Ben Franklin
AuthorBailey MacDonald
The play’s the thing . . .

To the outside world, Tom Pryne is an orphan traveling Elizabethan England with his uncle’s theater troupe. In actuality, “Tom” is Viola, in disguise because her parents’ Catholic sympathies have put them at odds with the Crown and forced them into hiding....
North American Indians
AuthorDouglas W. Gorsline
ISBN0394837029
Title: North American Indians

Author: Marie and Douglas Gorsline

Illustrator: Marie and Douglas Gorsline

Type of Book (format and literary genre): Picture book/ Non-Fiction

Awards the book has received (national): None

Short original summary of...
Skippack School
AuthorMarguerite de Angeli
ISBN0836191242
I have been making my way through all of the deAngeli books and I think that this one might be my favorite so far.

Eli and his family have come to America from Germany. When they are in their new home, he must start school. Eli doesn't like school. He likes to make things and play in the woods and help...
The Happy Day
AuthorRuth Krauss
ISBN0060233966
There are two kinds of winter: the nostalgic winter, in which Christmas lights twinkle in the snow and everyone drinks hot chocolate around a fireplace, and real winter, in which snow is yellow and brown, commutes to work are dangerous nightmares, and everyone's noses and toes freeze off. The Happy...
Anatole and the Cat
AuthorEve Titus
Anatole is the happiest, most contented mouse in all of Paris. He is Vice-President in charge of Cheese Tasting at Duvall's cheese factory. He works in secret at night--the people at Duvall have no idea their mysterious taster is really a mouse! So M'sieu Duvall thinks nothing of bringing his pet cat...
Pocahontas and the Strangers (Scholastic Biography)
AuthorClyde Robert Bulla
ISBN0590434810
Summary
This book tells the story of a young curious Indian girl named Pocahontas. Pocahontas is the daughter of king Powhatan. She worked in the fields along with the other women and children. One day, the village received message of palefaces down by the river. She remembered stories that a wise...
Squanto, Friend Of The Pilgrims
AuthorClyde Robert Bulla
ISBN0590440551
I still remember when I picked this up as a beginning reader. It was the thrill of reading an "older kid's book about a real person" that made it exciting, and the more mature narrative flow that made me feel accomplished. Some books you don't forget.

I've recently read a few other titles by Clyde...
Phoebe the Spy
AuthorJudith Berry Griffin
ISBN0698119568
Someone is planning to kill George Washington, and young Phoebe Fraunces is trying to save his life. Phoebe gets a job as George Washington's housekeeper, but her real job is to work as a spy. She listens and watches very carefully, and she meets her father every day to tell him what she has learned. One...
Sarah Whitcher's Story
AuthorElizabeth Yates
ISBN0890847541
I thought this book was a very good book and an easy reads.This fiction book was wrote by Elizabeth Yates and the name of the book is Sarah Whitcher's Story.This book is about a big family that lives out in the woods and they do things like in the old times and they are a Christian family.One day Pa and Ma went...
Pedro's Journal
AuthorPam Conrad
ISBN0590462067
Historical fiction/Children's Literature
Based on a child who actually did travel on the Santa Maria with Columbus. Also clearly based on Columbus's shockingly stupid journal entries.I like reading this with my students while we are learning about Columbus and other European explorers. It...
A Lion to Guard Us
AuthorClyde Robert Bulla
ISBN0064403335
The inspiring classic that The New Yorker called "an exciting tale [with] top-notch writing," about one girl facing harsh conditions and huge responsibility as she brings her family to the American colonies. 

Featuring a heroine with faith, courage, and a great deal of grit, this...
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