What Was the First Thanksgiving?

Authors: Holub, Joan
Lexile: 690,
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
BISAC/Subject: JNF018040, JNF025190, JNF026060
ISBN: 9780698159471, Related ISBNs: 0448464632, 0448465795, 0698159470, 9780448464633, 9780448465791
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 112,
Audience: Children/juvenile
Synopsis:

Learn more about the history of the feast that started off as a harvest celebration and has now become a national holiday.

After their first harvest in 1621, the Pilgrims at Plymouth shared a three-day feast with their Native American neighbors. Of course, the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag didn’t know it at the time, but they were making history.

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