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Thanksgiving on Plymouth Plantation
Contributor(s): Stanley, Diane (Author), Berry, Holly (Illustrator)

ISBN: 0060270691 ISBN-13: 9780060270698
Publisher: HarperCollins

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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2004
Annotation: The Traveling Twins go back in time to Plymouth Plantation in 1621, where they join the Pilgrims and Native Americans, led by Squanto, for an enormous four-day feast. Full color.

Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical - United States - General
- Juvenile Fiction | Holidays & Celebrations - Thanksgiving
- Juvenile Fiction | Family - Siblings

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 2002020548

Age Level: 5-8

Grade Level: Kindergarten-3

Lexile Measure: 630 AD (Adult Directed Text)

Physical Information: 0.43" H x 10.34" W x 8.2" L (0.81 lbs) 48 pages

Themes:
- Chronological Period - 17th Century
- Holiday - Thanksgiving

Features: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product

Review Citations: Kirkus Review - Children 08/01/2004 pg. 749
School Library Journal 09/01/2004 pg. 181
Booklist 09/01/2004 pg. 137
Publishers Weekly 09/27/2004 pg. 59
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2005 pg. 53 - Recommended, Satisfactory

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 81726
Reading Level: 3.9 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5

Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.

Publisher Description:

Wouldn't it be great to be part of that famous Thanksgiving feast at Plymouth Plantation back in 1621?

Then join the Time-Traveling Twins as they sit down to an enormous FOUR-DAY feast, complete with puddings, pompions, pottages, and, of course, turkeys. Meet Squanto and the other Native Americans. Help with the harvest. Find out what it was like to be a Pilgrim.

Once again, historian Diane Stanley's fun and impeccably researched text is brought to life by Holly Berry's accessible illustrations. Word balloons, engaging characters, and all sorts of wonderful details about the beginning of this American tradition await the lucky adventurer who journeys back with the Time-Traveling Twins.

Contributor Bio(s): Stanley, Diane: -

Diane Stanley is the author and illustrator of beloved books for young readers, including The Silver Bowl, which received three starred reviews, was named a best book of the year by Kirkus Reviews and Book Links Lasting Connections, and was an ALA Booklist Editors' Choice; The Cup and the Crown; Saving Sky, winner of the Arab American Museum's Arab American Book Award and a Bank Street College of Education Best Book of the Year; Bella at Midnight, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year and an ALA Booklist Editors' Choice; The Mysterious Case of the Allbright Academy; The Mysterious Matter of I. M. Fine; and A Time Apart. Well known as the author and illustrator of award-winning picture-book biographies, she is the recipient of the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children and the Washington Post-Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award for her body of work.

Ms. Stanley has also written and illustrated numerous picture books, including three creatively reimagined fairy tales: The Giant and the Beanstalk, Goldie and the Three Bears, and Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. dianestanleybooks.com.

Berry, Holly: -

Holly Berry is an award-winning artist and illustrator of picture books for children. Her books include I'm a Pig by Sarah Weeks, The Gingerbread Cowboy by Janet Squires, and Market Day by Eve Bunting, among others. She lives on a blueberry farm in Maine with her family and a few pets--including a cat named Flossie.

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