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The turkey? The stuffing and mashed potatoes?
If you're like me, the answer is easy. It's the
cranberries and pumpkin pie! Well, guess what?
When the Pilgrims sat down to enjoy their big harvest dinner in America about four hundred years ago, they
didn't eat many of the things we like to eat today. The holiday
menu we love is just one of the many wrong ideas that some
Americans have about Thanksgiving Day and the people we
celebrate each November, the Pilgrims of Plymouth Plantation.
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Every
year in the fall, schools and stores are decorated with cardboard
cutouts of Pilgrims dressed in clunky shoes and funny black
hats. That is all some people know about this group of English
men, women, and children who sailed to America long ago, in
search of a better life. But the real story of who these people
were, what they looked like, why they came to America, and how
they lived is very different. This is a true tale of the hard
days of hunger, cold, and danger. It's an incredible story about
real people, especially children, who struggled to survive in
the early days of America, and about the Native Americans who
helped them. When you've finished reading Don't Know Much About
the Pilgrims, and know what life was like for a Pilgrim child
four hundred years ago, you will have a real reason to be thankful—you'll
be glad that you weren't around back then |
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