Characters
This careful, notebook-carrying brother likes to write things down so he doesn’t forget.
Jack and Annie travel back to this holiday in the title of the book.
Thanksgiving
This magical place full of books takes Jack and Annie on their trips.
Magic Tree House
Pilgrims often had to do this chore to get meat for food, using traps and tools.
Hunting
This big event is what Jack and Annie help prepare for with the Pilgrims.
The first Thanksgiving
This brave, curious sister often rushes into adventures before thinking.
Annie
Jack and Annie travel back to the year of the first Thanksgiving
1961
This magical librarian of Camelot sends Jack and Annie on their missions with special rhymes.
Morgan
Squanto teaches the Pilgrims and Jack and Annie how to plant this important crop that becomes a main food at Plymouth.
Corn
What did the children make tables out of?
Barrels and wood
This Native American helps the Pilgrims learn how to plant corn and survive in the New World.
Squanto
This is the colony where Jack and Annie land, home of the Pilgrims.
Plymouth
In this book, Jack gets stuck in one of these while trying to run away from men in the woods.
Hunting Trap
Jack and Annie go to the shore to gather these sea creatures with shells, which are used for food
Clams
Jack and Annie help gather this food from the shore, which becomes part of the feast.
Clams
This kind Pilgrim woman invites Jack and Annie to help and be part of the feast.
Priscilla
These are the Native people who share the feast with the Pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving.
Wampanoag
Jack and Annie are supposed to find a “special magic” that appears when three what are turned into one?
3 worlds
Pilgrim children did this chore early in the morning to help with meals, using a heavy wooden tool.
Grinding corn
The Wampanoag bring this kind of food to the feast — food they hunted themselves.
Deer meat
He is one of the Pilgrim leaders at Plymouth and helps guide the colony.
Governor Bradford
This famous ship brought the Pilgrims to the New World. (It’s not in the title, but Jack and Annie learn about it.)
Mayflower
At the end, Jack and Annie realize the “special magic” they were looking for is really this—people coming together to be kind and thankful
Pilgrims lived in simple wooden homes and had to cook their meals using this instead of a stove.
Stove or hearth
At the end of the feast, Jack and Annie finally understand that Thanksgiving is really about this.
Being thankful, kind, and coming together