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Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Wampanoag children listen as their grandmother tells them the story about how Weeâchumun (the wise Corn) asked local Native Americans to show the newcomers how to grow food to yield a good harvest--Keepunumuk--in 1621"--
Author
Publisher
Silver Whistle
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Squanto recounts how in 1614 he was captured by the British, sold into slavery in Spain, and ultimately returned to the New World to become a guide and friend for the colonists.
7) Ghost Hawk
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
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
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the life of the Massachusetts Indian Squanto, best known for befriending the Pilgrims of the New Plymouth Colony.
Describes how the Indian Squanto, an English-speaking Christian and former slave, whose village had been wiped out by smallpox, taught the Pilgrims the skills they needed to survive the harsh Massachusetts winter.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the mid-nineteenth-century shipbuilding town of Essex, Massachusetts, twelve-year-old Addie learns a startling secret about her past when she escapes servitude by running away to live in the snowy woods and meets an elderly Wampanoag woman.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony's founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story. In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin (Massasoit), and Plymouth's governor, John Carver, declared their people's friendship for each other and a commitment to mutual defense. Later that autumn,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Recreates a day in the life of a Wampanoag Indian boy during pilgrim times. Tapenum is disappointed when he isn't chosen to become a warrior counselor but he has a plan so that he won't be disappointed again next year.
Author
Series
Publisher
Blue Earth Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book is a biography of Squanto, a Patuxet Indian who served as translator to the Pilgrims of Plymouth in what is now Massachusetts and aided them in establishing a successful colony in the early 1600s.
Author
Series
Imagination station volume 6
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When time-traveling cousins Patrick and Beth use the Imagination Station to go to Plymouth Colony in 1621 hoping to find Hugh and return him to his own time, they meet William Bradford, Myles Standish, and Squanto.
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history of New Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, the relationship between the colonists and the native Wampanoag people, and the harvest festival which would later become Thanksgiving Day.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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...