Fourteen-year-old Jess relates her sea voyage with other English families to Roanoke Island in 1587, their attempt to make a permanent settlement, and Jess’s contact with the Croatoan Indians.
Pilgrims (Magic Tree House Fact Tracker #13)
When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #27: Thanksgiving on Thursday, they had lots of questions. What was it like to sail on the Mayflower? Why did the Pilgrims choose Plymouth? How did they survive in their new home? What did they really eat at the first Thanksgiving? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts. Filled with up-to-date information, photos, illustrations, and fun tidbits from Jack and Annie, the Magic Tree House Fact Trackers are the perfect way for kids to find out more about the topics they discovered in their favorite Magic Tree House adventures.
Mayflower & the Pilgrims’ New World
This simple question launches acclaimed author Nathaniel Philbrick on an extraordinary journey to understand the truth behind our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the Mayflower and the settlement of Plymouth Colony. As Philbrick reveals in this electrifying new book, the story of the Pilgrims does not end with the First Thanksgiving; instead, it is a fifty-five-year epic that is at once tragic and heroic, and still carries meaning for us today.
Plymouth Pilgrim, A: William Bradford’s Eyewitness Account of the Mayflower Passengers
“An easy to digest contemporary guide to the Mayflower Pilgrims…. a useful companion to the original text, ‘Of Plimoth Plantation.’… The book is excellent.” – Jane Williams (Producer and Director of the documentary film, “Pilgrim Home: In Search of Scrooby Manor”)
“I highly recommend A Plymouth Pilgrim for middle school and high school students. My boys will be reading the book… and I feel blessed to be able to use it as a part of their studies.” – Danika Cooley (homeschooling blogger, and author of When Lightning Struck! The Story of Martin Luther).
This is the dramatic story of the Plymouth Pilgrims as told by an eyewitness to their lives: their persecutions, secret meetings, angry negotiations, religious disputes, savage storms, kidnapping and sabotage, fear and faith, and their desperate struggle to survive. This is William Bradford’s own 400-year-old story, now faithfully updated for today’s readers.
FEATURES OF THIS BOOK:
* Timeline of historical events leading up to the Plymouth settlement.
* Chapter questions for study, discussion, and reflection.
* Maps and illustrations unique to this book.
* Obscure historical references clarified within the text as part of the story.
* The list of Mayflower passengers grouped into families.
* Archaic language paraphrased into a clear first-person account.
* True to Bradford’s original content, convictions, and chronology.
This fresh retelling of the Pilgrim’s true story concludes with their first full year in the New World, thereby encompassing all the events that fascinate us most: from their persecutions in England, to their dangerous ocean voyage, their first encounters with Native Americans, their struggle against sickness and starvation, culminating with their now famous celebration that we call the “First Thanksgiving.”
In this book you will find neither patriotic hero-worship, nor politically correct revisionism. This is the true story of Governor William Bradford, with all his faith, fears, and frailties, but retold in modern language so readers may hear his story the way he might tell it today over a hot cup of tea at your kitchen table.
John Winthrop, Oliver Cromwell, and the Land of Promise
This carefully researched and insightful account by Sibert medalist Marc Aronson focuses on the intertwined lives of John Winthrop, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Puritan Commonwealth in England. Set against a broad canvas of the turmoil that engulfed Britain in the 17th century, the book examines the clashes of the monarchy and the church with Parliament, which led these two powerful men to take opposite courses. Here is a panoramic view of the period, from elaborate masques to the trial of a heretic, from wars fought against Indians to dramatic battles led by cavalry, from the toppling of a king to the search for the ideal society.
Packed with literary allusions, vivid descriptions of significant events, and a cast of memorable figures, this sweeping account picks up where the highly acclaimed Sir Walter Ralegh leaves off, providing another riveting look at British and early American history. Cast of characters, maps, endnotes and bibliography, Internet resources, timeline, index.
Adventurous Life of Myles Standish and the Amazing-but-True Survival Story of Plymouth Colony, The
Say hello to Myles Standish, a fiery man with short legs and an even shorter temper. When he got mad his face turned as red as his hair, earning him the nickname “Captaine Shrimpe.”
It’s a story that has been told for almost 400 years—how a brave band of people set sail on the Mayflower to find a new life in America.
By weaving her chatty, narrative text with her incredibly detailed artwork, award-winning author-illustrator Cheryl Harness makes readers feel as though they are part of the adventure.
Students will discover all sorts of things they never knew before: that a teenage boy almost blew up the Mayflower and that the first Indian the Pilgrims met greeted them in English! They’ll learn more serious things, too: all about why they came, the hardships they suffered, the people they met, and the successes they achieved.
Middle-graders will experience one of history’s great adventures as only Cheryl Harness can tell it.
Mayflower Secret (Trailblazer Books Book 26)
Stories of the Pilgrims
Beginning with Queen Anne’s visit to Scrooby inn, tells in story form of the everyday life of the Pilgrims in England and Holland, of their voyage on the Mayflower and their adventures in the New World. The Brewster children and other Pilgrim boys and girls are the center of interest. A wonderful book to read aloud in the weeks before Thanksgiving. Suitable for ages 6 and up.
Thanksgiving on Thursday (Magic Tree House #27)
Jack and Annie are ready for their next fantasy adventure in the bestselling middle-grade series–the Magic Tree House!
It’s a time for giving thanks . . .
when the Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie back to 1621 on the first Thanksgiving Day. The Pilgrims ask them to help get things ready. But whether it’s cooking or clamming, Jack and Annie don’t know how to do “anything” the Pilgrim way. Will they ruin the holiday forever? Or will the feast go on?
Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims (Rush Revere #1)
Nationally syndicated radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh has long wanted to make American history come to life for the children of his listeners, so he created the character of a fearless middle-school history teacher named Rush Revere, who travels back in time and experiences American history as it happens, in adventures with exceptional Americans. In this book, he is transported back to the deck of the Mayflower.