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Rhyming verses trace the events leading up to the first Thanksgiving Day.

A Pilgrim family's struggle to survive in their harsh new homeland culminates in a thanksgiving feast.

Counts things associated with a harvest feast in colonial Plymouth Colony, including pilgrims, Wampanoags, nuts, squash, and, of course, turkeys.

"Wampanoag children listen as their grandmother tells them the story about how Weeâchumun (the wise Corn) asked local Native Americans to show the Pilgrims how to grow food to yield a good harvest--Keepunumuk--in 1621."--

Squanto recounts how in 1614 he was captured by the British, sold into slavery in Spain, and ultimately returned to the New World to become a guide and friend for the colonists.

Friendship, a dog who has crossed the sea with the Pilgrims, describes the colony's first year in the New World, culminating in the first Thanksgiving feast.

The journal of a young girl tells of her daily life, hardships, romances and marriage during the first years of the Pilgrim settlement at Plymouth.

During a class field trip to a Pilgrim village recreation, Katie finds herself replacing an actor playing a Pilgrim and, later, when her family goes to New York City, she becomes a clown in the Thanksgiving Day parade.

All the other villagers tell Mini that she is too small to help them with their chores, but she is not too small to be kind to another girl she meets.