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From the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement of New England has become enshrined as our most sacred national myth. Yet, as author Philbrick reveals, the true story of the Pilgrims is much more than the well-known tale of piety and sacrifice; it is a 55-year epic. The Mayflower's religious refugees arrived in Plymouth Harbor during a period of crisis for Native Americans, as disease spread...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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From the bestselling author of The Wives of Los Alamos comes the riveting story of a strangers arrival in the fledgling colony of Plymouth, Massachusettsand a crime that shakes the divided community to its core.
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2003]
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IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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The 1653-1654 diary of a fourteen-year-old Pocasset Indian girl, destined to become a leader of her tribe, describes how her life changes with the seasons, after a ritual fast she undertakes, and with her tribe's interaction with the English "Coat-men" of the nearby Plymouth Colony.
18) A journey to the New World: the diary of Remember Patience Whipple : Mayflower/Plimoth Colony, 1620
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1996] ©1996
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IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Twelve-year-old Mem presents a diary account of the trip she and her family made on the Mayflower in 1620 and their first year in the New World.
19) Ghost Hawk
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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On the winter day Little Hawk is sent into the woods alone, he can take only a bow and arrows, the tomahawk his father crafted, and the amazing metal knife that his father traded for with the new white settlers. If Little Hawk survives three moons by himself, he will be a man. But his triumphant return is crushed by the death of his entire village by disease. The rest of his life is shaped by interactions between his people and the new settlers.
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Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
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English
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Describes the reasons that the Pilgrims traveled to the New World, their voyage on the Mayflower, the hardships of their first winter in the Plymouth settlement, and the harvest celebration remembered as the first Thanksgiving.
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