The Thanksgiving play Claudia and her drama class write for the third graders add some twists to the traditional story. Now some of the parents and teachers tell them to change their story or stop production of the play.
When a new girl joins her third-grade class just before Thanksgiving, Emma thinks only about gaining her friendship before the popular Cynthia can, and hurts her best friend Annie Pat's feelings in the process.
Karen worries everyone will laugh at her when she is not chosen to be the star of the Thanksgiving play her class is putting on, but instead gets the role of the Turkey.
In 1621, eleven-year-old Giles becomes suspicious of a Wampanoag who keeps slipping in and out of Plimoth Colony's storehouse and determines to follow him to discover why.