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Jack and 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.

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A sweeping account of America's oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing to unearth its answer, and the sobering truths—about race, gender, and immigration—exposed by the Lost Colony of Roanoke
In 1587, 115 men, women, and children arrived at Roanoke Island on the coast of North Carolina. Chartered by Queen Elizabeth I, their colony was to establish England's first foothold in the New World....

Rhyming verses trace the events leading up to the first Thanksgiving Day.

On August 18, 1590, John White's ship reached Roanoke Island, off the coast of present-day North Carolina. White raced up the beach, looking for his family and more than one hundred other English colonists. Yet there was no trace of them. The colonists' boats were missing. Their homes were gone. White, the colony's leader, found a few letters carved into a tree and a wooden gatepost. What had happened while he was away? Had the colonists been attacked...

In order to escape religious persecution, a group of English Separatists set sail for America in 1620, hoping to establish a new colony.

Shipwrecked and cast ashore in Japan with no memory of Temeraire or his own experiences as an English aviator, Capt. William Laurence finds himself tangled in deadly political intrigues that threaten not only his own life but England's already precarious position in the Far East.

Chronicles, in text and illustrations, the day-to-day life of the early Pilgrims in the Plimoth Colony.

Animated biography of William Bradford, the leader of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, and the founder of Thanksgiving.

What was it like to be a passenger on the Mayflower? How many people survived the first harsh winter in the New World? How did Pilgrim children spend their days? Find out the answers to these questions and more in this Magic Tree House Research Guide: Pilgrims. Includes fun facts from Jack and Annie, fantastic photos and illustrations, and a guide to doing further research. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Describes how the first Thanksgiving celebration came to be.