What Was the First Thanksgiving?
by Joan Holub and Lauren Mortimer • Part of the Who Was? What Was? Where Is? Series
Learn more about the history of the feast that started off as a harvest celebration... read more
- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Holiday
- Nonfiction
Year Published 2013
Word Count 7,241
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 690L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 163167
- Curricular Area
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Massachusetts--History--New Plymouth, 1620-1691--Juvenile literature
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States - Colonial & Revolutionary Periods
- Thanksgiving Day
- Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)
- Massachusetts
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Holidays & Celebrations | Thanksgiving
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction
- Thanksgiving Day--Juvenile literature
- History
- New Plymouth, 1620-1691
- Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)--Juvenile literature
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