"It's another Thanksgiving at Grandma's. Gavin is ready for a day of boredom, but his cousin Rhonda has a different idea: escape from the kids' room and head for the swing set in the backyard! Gavin isn't so sure, especially when they encounter vicious guard dogs, a hallway full of aunts, and worse yet, the great wall of butts! Will they manage to avoid the obstacles and find some fun before turkey time, or will they be captured before they've had...

A boy relates the preparations for, and enjoyment of, his family's annual Thanksgiving in the Woods celebration on his grandparents' farm. Includes words to the Shaker hymn Tis a Gift to be Simple and notes about the real gathering on which the story is based.

Annie wants to have a big Thanksgiving dinner and thinks about who she can invite to share it with her.

Questions and answers about the first Thanksgiving and what it was like to live in America in the 1620's.

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.