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Format:

Book

Author:

Philbrick, Nathaniel.

Title:

The Mayflower and the pilgrims' new world / Nathaniel Philbrick.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

xii, 338 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Summary:

After a journey across the Atlantic, the Mayflower's passengers were saved from destruction with the help of the natives of the Plymouth region. For fifty years, peace was maintained as Pilgrims and Natives worked together. But that trust was broken with the next generation of leaders, and conflict erupted that nearly wiped out English and natives alike.

Subjects:

Bradford, William, 1590-1657 -- Juvenile literature.

Church, Benjamin, 1639-1718 -- Juvenile literature.

Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) -- Juvenile literature.

Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1600-1750 -- Juvenile literature.

Massachusetts -- History -- New Plymouth, 1620-1691 -- Juvenile literature.

Other Author:

Philbrick, Nathaniel. Mayflower.

Other Title:

Mayflower.

Notes:

Adaptation of: Mayflower : a story of courage, community, and war. New York : Viking, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (page 328) and index.

Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 8.3 14.

Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 8.3 14.0 124051.

Reading Counts RC 6-8 11. 19 Quiz: 44551.

A Junior Library Guild selection

Contents:

List of characters -- The story we need to know -- Discovery: they knew they were pilgrims -- The Compact -- The plague -- Beaten with their own rod -- The heart of winter -- In a dark and dismal swamp -- Thanksgiving -- Community: The wall -- At death's door -- A New England -- The ancient mother -- The trial -- War: Kindling the flame -- Fuel to the enemy -- Keeping the faith -- The better side of the hedge -- The rock -- Time line -- Mayflower passenger list.

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Table of contents

Publisher description

LCCN:

2007030669

ISBN:

9780399247958

0399247955

Other Number:

163593114

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

227360

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1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

j 973.22 Philbric