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BOOK LIST

30 Books to Celebrate Thanksgiving

Share books about gratitude, traditions, and turkeys with your students in grades PreK–4.

Celebrate Thanksgiving and honor Native American Heritage month in your classroom with the 30 books on this list. Focusing on topics like gratitude, Native American heritage and history, the first Thanksgiving, and, of course, turkeys, these 30 fiction and nonfiction titles will enhance your November lessons and help you provide students with the information and traditions behind one of the biggest holidays of the year. 

Paperback Book

Give Thanks for Each Day

Grades Pre-K
$3.00$4.00
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A touching reminder to children of all the things they can be thankful for: a hug, a parade, a bath, and of course being together with the people you love.

Board Book

Ten Fat Turkeys

Grades Pre-K
$5.24$6.99
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Gobble gobble up this board book for a Thanksgiving treat!

Paperback Book

Feeling Thankful

Grades Pre-K - 1
$5.21$6.95
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In this concept book, children are thankful for the special people in their life, for walks in the rain, and for the whole world.

Paperback Book

The Pilgrims' First Thanksgiving

Grades K - 1
$5.99$7.99
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An easy-to-read, large format book about the pilgrims' first Thanksgiving.

Paperback Book

The Great Thanksgiving Escape

Grades K - 3
$4.46$5.95
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It's another Thanksgiving at Grandma's. Gavin expects a long day of boredom and being pestered by distantly related toddlers, but his cousin Rhonda has a different idea.

Paperback Book

Twas the Night before Thanksgiving

Grades 1 - 2
$4.13$5.50
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The incomparable Dav Pilkey adapts the classic Christmas poem to tell his wacky Thanksgiving tale. 

Paperback Book

Many Nations

Grades 1 - 3
$5.24$6.99
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From Anishanabe artists making birch bark bowls to Zuni elders saying prayers for the day that is done, the diversity of Native American cultures is presented simply in this unique and beautiful alphabet book.

Paperback Book

Molly's Pilgrim

Grades 3 - 4
$4.46$5.95
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Molly and her family emigrated from Russia to the United States, and Molly is the only Jewish child in third grade. When her teacher assigns her a project to make a Pilgrim doll, Molly's mother helps out and dresses it in Russian clothes. Soon Molly learns that it takes all kinds of "pilgrims" to make a Thanksgiving.

Paperback Book

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Turkey

Grades Pre-K - 2
$5.21$6.95
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The old lady is at it again, and this time she's swallowing a Turkey...she's always been quirky!

Each book in this lively leveled reader series builds social emotional awareness while building reading skills.

Paperback Book

Katie Saves Thanksgiving

Grades 2 - 3
$5.96$7.95
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When their guests get stuck in a snowstorm and the Woos' oven suddenly breaks, Katie wonders what kind of Thanksgiving it will be without sweet potatoes, pie, and friends.