massachusetts

Enhanced by period maps and first-person accounts, presents the history of colonial Massachusetts.

Sixteen-year-old atheist Simone Turner-Bloom's life changes in unexpected ways when her parents convince her to make contact with her biological mother, an agnostic from a Jewish family who is losing her battle with cancer.

Describes the first Thanksgiving and what life was like for the Pilgrims at the New Plymouth Colony.

Describes, in graphic novel format, the Pilgrims' arrival in Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts, their struggles to survive, their friendship with the Wampanoag Indians, and the celebration they shared with the Wampanoags when the worst of their struggles were over, which is known as the first Thanksgiving.

Anxious to be a hero, a young boy relates how he became involved in Shays' Rebellion, begun by farmers in western Massachusetts against what they felt were unfair taxes levied on them by the Boston government.

When Cody's Goth cousin Turk moves into his house, enrolls at Vlad Dracul, and decides to turn an abandoned nineteenth-century mill into an art center, the vampire (Jenti) students are not pleased, and Cody's hopes for a great sophomore year are blighted.

Collects "Pilgrims" and "Thanksgiving on Thursday" in which Jack and his younger sister Annie travel in their magic treehouse to the year 1621, where they celebrate the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians in the New Plymouth Colony.

Mumbet's Declaration of Independence tells the story of a Massachusetts slave from the Revolutionary era--in 1781, she successfully used the new Massachusetts Constitution to make a legal case that she should be free.

In graphic novel format, this book tells the story of the colonists who traveled to North America in 1620 on the Mayflower, their reasons for coming, and how they started Plymouth Colony.