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Celebrate Thanksgiving: With Turkey, Family, and Counting Blessings
Contributor(s): Heiligman, Deborah (Author)
ISBN: 0792259289     ISBN-13: 9780792259282
Publisher: National Geographic Society
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Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: October 2006
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Annotation: Thanksgiving is the original American holiday. When the Pilgrims sat down to give thanks for the hard-won bounty of their new world, they continued a Native American tradition that would become a focal point in the calendar of all generations of Americans to come.
The author relates this holiday to the harvest festivals celebrated by thankful believers of many faiths all over the globe. The books stunning pictures show the celebration in its historical and cultural aspects, and the back matter contains a delicious Thanksgiving recipe, a glossary, and a useful list of holiday references and resources.
Dr. Elizabeth Pleck gives readers, parents, and teachers an historical and cultural background to this unique American tradition in her informative note.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Holidays & Celebrations - Thanksgiving
Dewey: 394.264
LCCN: 2006008685
Lexile Measure: 870
Series: Holidays Around the World (Hardcover)
Physical Information: 0.39" H x 8.74" W x 10.3" (0.91 lbs) 32 pages
Themes:
- Holiday - Thanksgiving
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 111336
Reading Level: 5.6   Interest Level: Lower Grades   Point Value: 0.5
 
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Thanksgiving is the original American holiday. When the Pilgrims sat down to give thanks for the hard-won bounty of their new world, they continued a Native American tradition that would become a focal point in the calendar of all generations of Americans to come. The author relates this holiday to the harvest festivals celebrated by thankful believers of many faiths all over the globe. The book's stunning pictures show the celebration in its historical and cultural aspects, and the back matter contains a delicious Thanksgiving recipe, a glossary, and a useful list of holiday references and resources. Dr. Elizabeth Pleck gives readers, parents, and teachers an historical and cultural background to this unique American tradition in her informative note. National Geographic supports K-12 educators with ELA Common Core Resources. Visit www.natgeoed.org/commoncore for more information.