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.
Drummer Willie Roberts dreams of a perfect Thanksgiving which would have the Lincoln Lions Band in new uniforms playing on the football field and his long-absent father in the stands.
When calamity stalks every step of the preparations for the Tappletons' Thanksgiving dinner, they realize that there is more to Thanksgiving than turkey and trimmings.
Karen wants her Thanksgiving report to be the best in the class, but she is afraid her friend Pamela's will be better, so Karen arranges to have real Pilgrims help her and her classmates learn the true meaning of Thanksgiving.
Follows the activities of seven children in nineteenth-century New England as they prepare for the Thanksgiving holiday while Mother is away caring for Grandmother.
Introduces the holiday of Thanksgiving and some of the ways in which it is celebrated, explaining the origin and meaning behind such symbols as the turkey.
