Gavin and his cousin Rhonda make a break for the backyard to escape boredom at Grandma's house during their family's Thanksgiving Day celebration and face guard dogs, aunts, and more on their way out.
Young readers are shown what the first Thanksgiving was like through the eyes of Miles Allerton, an English settler living in Plymouth Colony with his parents, and Aquina, a Native American girl living in what is now Massachusetts.
Amelia Bedelia volunteers to fill in as the director of a third-grade Thanksgiving play, but she misunderstands everything from one girl's desire to play a big role to an opening night wish that she "break a leg.".
Family, Grandpa's mashed potatoes, even a treasure hunt and roasting marshmallows are all part of Thanksgiving tradition, until Maddy's parents have other plans this year.
Photographs and text trace the history of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade from its first parade in 1924 through the twenty-first century, profiling some of the parade's most memorable moments.
A dog's-eye view of the Mayflower voyage and first Thanksgiving at Plymouth Colony traces the experiences of John Goodman's two dogs as they endure a brutal crossing and first year in the new world before sharing a first harvest with the Wampanoag Indians.
During a class field trip to a Pilgrim village recreation, Katie finds herself replacing an actor playing a Pilgrim and, later, when her family goes to New York City, she becomes a clown in the Thanksgiving Day parade.
