Thanksgiving At The Tappletons'
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.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 99
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: children's stories, american, thanksgiving day [X], family life, humorous stories, family [X], humorous fiction, thanksgiving day -, humorous fiction
This Is The Turkey
A great read-aloud describes in rhyme the activities of a young boy and his extended family as they share a special Thanksgiving.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 55
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
The Thanksgiving Visitor
A boy recalls his life with an elderly relative in rural Alabama in the 1930's and the lesson she taught him one Thanksgiving Day about dealing with a bully from school.
FIC
year: 1996
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1130
subjects: family [X], boys, thanksgiving day [X], family life, southern states, bullies, alabama, bullying
A Christmas Memory, One Christmas, & The Thanksgiving Visitor
Collects three autobiographical fiction stories by Truman Capote, two of them telling of holidays spent with distant relatives in Alabama, and one recalling a Christmas spent in New Orleans with his estranged father.
FIC
year: 1996
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
Turkey Monster Thanksgiving
When her perfectionist classmate and neighbor plans an elaborate Thanksgiving dinner, Katie begins to wonder if the relaxed day she, her father, and her messy little brother usually enjoy means they are not a "real" family.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: dinners and dining, thanksgiving day [X], dinners, single-parent families, family life, families, family [X]