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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This madcap picture book stars a ravenously hungry relative who comes to Thanksgiving dinner with a pie. Since she eats the pie in its entirety before she even gets in the house, she has to swallow some cider (that "rumbled and mumbled and grumbled inside her"). If you must know, "She swallowed the cider to moisten the pie, / The Thanksgiving pie, which was really too dry, /Perhaps she'll die." The story continues in this vein, as we watch the hosts...
8) Thanksgiving
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Formats
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When Megan Murphy discovers a rabbit gnawing on the hem of her skirt, she is about to give its careless owner a piece of her mind, but Dr. Patrick Hunter turns out to be too attractive to be mad at.
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Mouse books (Judy Cox) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
On Thanksgiving Day while everyone naps, Mouse spots one pea, a perfect feast, but he cannot help adding all of the fixings--until Cat spots him.
11) Turkey trouble
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
As Thanksgiving Day approaches, Turkey nervously makes a series of costumes, disguising himself as other farm animals in hopes that he can avoid being served as Thanksgiving dinner.
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Cranberry volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Grandmother almost loses her secret recipe for cranberry bread to one of the guests she and Maggie invite for Thanksgiving dinner. Includes the secret recipe.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A collection of poems about one family's activities on Thanksgiving Day, including pondering the history behind the holiday, welcoming visiting relatives, praying for others, enjoying the good food, and giving thanks at the end of the day.
17) William Bradford
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
William Bradford fled with the Pilgrims to the new world, where he discovered that the price for religious freedom was hunger, sickness and death. As a peacemaker, he befriended the Native Americans who taught the struggling Pilgrims how to survive. By the end of the first year, William Bradford became Governor of the new land. After their first critical harvest, he set aside time for the Pilgrims and their new Native American friends to feast...
18) Turkey pox
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Charity has chicken pox, there's a terrible snowstorm outside, and it looks like the Chatfields will have to spend Thanksgiving without Nana and her wonderful roast turkey, stuffing, and cranberries.