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What was the first Thanksgiving?

Describes how the Pilgrims at Plymouth shared a three-day feast with their Native American neighbors after their first harvest in 1621, establishing a tradition that would become a national holiday.

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Main Author:	Holub, Joan
Other Authors:	Mortimer, Lauren (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, New York : Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of the Penguin Group, [2013]
Series:	What was--?
Subjects:	Thanksgiving Day > Juvenile nonfiction. Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) > Juvenile nonfiction. Massachusetts > History > New Plymouth, 1620-1691 > Juvenile nonfiction.
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Summary:	Describes how the Pilgrims at Plymouth shared a three-day feast with their Native American neighbors after their first harvest in 1621, establishing a tradition that would become a national holiday.
Physical Description:	105 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (page 104).
ISBN:	9780448464633 (pbk.) 0448464632 (pbk.) 9780448465791 (hardcover) 0448465795 (hardcover) 9781451798890 (PawPrints) 145179889X (PawPrints) 9780606316873 (Turtleback Books) 0606316876 (Turtleback Books)
Author Notes:	Author Joan Holub graduated from college in Texas with a fine arts degree. She illustrated her first published children's book in 1992 and began illustrating full time, shortly thereafter. She sold her first two manuscripts in 1996 and has since become a full time author. She has written and/or illustrated over 130 children's books, including the Goddess Girls and Heroes in Training Series. Her title Mighty Dads, illustrated by James Dean, made the New York Times bestseller list in 2014. (Bowker Author Biography)