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Author
Publisher
Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Once a year at Thanksgiving, we encounter Pilgrims as folksy people in funny hats before promptly forgetting them. In the centuries since America began, the Pilgrims have been relegated to folklore and children's stories, fairy-tale mascots for holiday parties and greeting cards.The true story of the Pilgrim Fathers could not be more different. Beginning with the execution of two pastors deviating from the Elizabethan Church of England, the Pilgrims...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Description
The Pilgrims were entrepreneurs as well as evangelicals, political radicals as well as Christian idealists. "Making Haste from Babylon" tells their story in unrivaled depth, from their roots in religious conflict and village strife at home to their final creation of a permanent foothold in America.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"The three-thousand-mile trip was crowded and dangerous, and there was trouble when the passengers settled in Plymouth for a bitter, cold winter. However, their determination was ultimately rewarded; the Pilgrims adjusted to the New England climate thanks to help from local Native Americans and soon celebrated their first harvest in the New World."--Amazon.com.
10) Pilgrim cat
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Co
Pub. Date
2004
Description
A young pilgrim girl and the cat she discovers on the Mayflower voyage begin their life together in the Plymouth settlement.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Description
Turkey, cranberries, pumpkin pie, and the Peanuts gang to share them with. This is going to be the greatest Thanksgiving ever! The fun begins when Peppermint Patty invites herself and her pals to Charlie Brown's house for a really big turkey party. All our hero can cook is cold cereal and maybe toast. Is Charlie Brown doomed? Not when Linus, Snoopy and Woodstock chip in to save the (Thanksgiving) Day.
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Formats
Description
The voyage of the Mayflower and the founding of Plymouth Colony is one of the seminal events in world history. But the poorly-equipped group of English Puritans who ventured across the Atlantic in the early autumn of 1620 had no sense they would pass into legend. They had eighty casks of butter and two dogs but no cattle for milk, meat, or ploughing. They were ill-prepared for the brutal journey and the new land that few of them could comprehend....
14) A journey to the New World: the diary of Remember Patience Whipple : Mayflower/Plimoth Colony, 1620
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
Twelve-year-old Mem presents a diary account of the trip she and her family made on the Mayflower in 1620 and their first year in the New World.
