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1) The pilgrims
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Series
Publisher
Abdo Pub
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Presents an introduction to the early settlers of the American colonies, called Pilgrims, and provides information on how they made it to the new world seeking religous freedom, how they survived the first winter, created alliances with Native Americans, and celebrated Thanksgiving. Includes time line and glossary.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
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Ten years after the Mayflower pilgrims arrived on rocky, unfamiliar soil, Plymouth is not the land its residents had imagined. Seemingly established on a dream of religious freedom, in reality the town is led by fervent puritans who prohibit the residents from living, trading, and worshipping as they choose. By the time an unfamiliar ship, bearing new colonists, appears on the horizon one summer morning, Anglican outsiders have had enough.
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Publisher
ABDO Publishing
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
Have you ever wondered about the events that laid the foundations of the United States of America? The title The Mayflower Compact explores concisely and engagingly the Mayflower travelers and the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. Special features include sidebars, infographics, on-page definitions, online search sidebar, further evidence sidebar and primary sources. This title also includes a timeline, glossary, Web links, index, and common...
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When English Separatists flee to Holland, Dutch urban life corrupts their children and weakens their families. Convinced that God is leading them to the New World, these devout Pilgrims bravely cross the Atlantic. But after violent storms carry them far north of Hudson's River, they fight icy New England winds to build crude shelters. When half die of starvation and cold that winter, the weakened survivors have little hope of facing the specter of...
10) The pilgrims
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Questions and answers present information about who the Pilgrims were, how and why they came to America on the Mayflower, and what happened in the colony of New Plymouth.
12) Ghost Hawk
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
At the end of a winter-long journey into manhood, Little Hawk returns to find his village decimated by a white man's plague and soon, despite a fresh start, Little Hawk dies violently but his spirit remains trapped, seeing how his world changes.
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"On the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower landing and the establishment of Plymouth Plantation, Carla Gardina Pestana offers an intimate look at life in the settlement. Hardly the isolated outpost of myth, in Pestana's telling Plymouth is revealed as a vibrant place of meeting, with strong connections to the seventeenth-century colonial world."--
16) The Mayflower
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Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Myths about the Mayflower and the Pilgrim's arrival in modern-day America debunked."--
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Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
The 1653-1654 diary of a fourteen-year-old Pocasset Indian girl, destined to become a leader of her tribe, describes how her life changes with the seasons, after a ritual fast she undertakes, and with her tribe's interaction with the English "Coat-men" of the nearby Plymouth Colony.
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Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Plymouth Rock has long stood as a symbol of the Pilgrims' journey to and settlement in America. But how much of the story surrounding it is true? What did the Pilgrims' arrival mean to the Wampanoag people who were already living there? What were the long-lasting effects of the interactions between the two groups? How did a seaside rock come to be associated with the Pilgrims' landing, and was it really part of their story at all? Readers will find...
