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Describes how the Indian Squanto, an English-speaking Christian and former slave, whose village had been wiped out by smallpox, taught the Pilgrims the skills they needed to survive the harsh Massachusetts winter.

When calamity stalks every step of the preparations for the Tappletons' Thanksgiving dinner, they realize that there is more to Thanksgiving than turkey and trimmings.

Describes the Pilgrims' first years in Plymouth and the first Thanksgiving.

In 1934 Kit finds that she has hard lessons to learn about the Depression both at home, where she is helping her mother run a boarding house while her father looks for a new job, and at school, where a fight spoils the preparations for the Thanksgiving pageant.

Twelve short poems that combine counting with the story of the first Thanksgiving.

Two families--one that is perfect and one that is far from it--celebrate Thanksgiving in their own loving ways.

A family gathers to celebrate Thanksgiving at Grandma's house.

Jack and Annie travel in their magic treehouse to the year 1621, where they celebrate the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians in the New Plymouth Colony.

Gooney Bird Greene, an entertaining second grader who introduces challenging vocabulary words and tells "absolutely true" stories, finds a surprise room mother to bring cupcakes for the Thanksgiving pageant.

Relates how Sarah Hale, a magazine editor and author, persuaded President Lincoln to transform Thanksgiving Day into a national holiday.

Calls to fires, an injured friend, and cooking disasters threaten to keep a group of fire fighters from enjoying Thanksgiving dinner.

Arthur finds his role as director of the Thanksgiving play a difficult one, especially since no one will agree to play the turkey.

Refugees from a Caribbean island embark on a dangerous boat trip to America where they have a special reason to celebrate Thanksgiving.

Mr. and Mrs. Moose try to invite a turkey to their Thanksgiving feast.

The first graders get tired of Anna Maria's bossy ways during the Thanksgiving preparations.