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Title: Gracias, the Thanksgiving Turkey by Joy Cowley, Joe Cepeda ISBN: 0-590-46977-0 Publisher: Scholastic en Espanol Pub. Date: October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Multicultural Thanksgiving story
Comment: The narrator's dad is a long-haul truck driver who sends a live baby turkey to his son, who lives in New York City with his grandparents. Along with the turkey, he sends instructions to fatten him up for Thanksgiving Day. But by the time dad returns for Thanksgiving, the bird has become a pet, not a meal. The story is quite fun, with just a little tension, but no scary bits. There is a sprinkling of Spanish words throughout the text, and a bilingual glossary at the end of the book. Altogether, the book has about 1300 words.
Rating: 5
Summary: N.Y. Hispanic family has turkey for dinner!
Comment: I use this book with at-risk 2nd and 3rd grade readers. It is wonderfully multicultural, and involves a multigenerational,Hispanic family living in New York city at Thanksgiving time. Miguel's father is a long-haul trucker who sends him a live turkey to raise for Thanksgiving dinner. Papa will be home to share it with the family. The predictable happens: boy and turkey fall in love. Miguel tries to reach his father in time to spare Gracias' life. At this point, I have my students write a letter, too, as if it were their pet they wanted to keep. The suspense builds until Gracias follows Miguel to church, and gets blessed by the priest! The grandparents are wonderfully supportive, and Tia Rosa is predictably pessimistic. Gracias comes to Thanksgiving dinner, but not in the way expected. My students make written predictions about how Papa will react, and what will happen next. This book is written by Joy Cowley,who writes many of the books we use in the Reading Recovery Program for at-risk readers in the United States. I really love it as it inspires poor writers to write, and gets everyone involved in the enfolding drama.
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Title: A Turkey for Thanksgiving by Diane de Groat, Eve Bunting ISBN: 0395742129 Publisher: Clarion Books Pub. Date: 18 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving by Dav Pilkey ISBN: 0531059057 Publisher: Orchard Books Pub. Date: October, 1990 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Thanksgiving at the Tappletons' by Eileen Spinelli, Maryann Cocca-Leffler, Judith Stuller Hannant ISBN: 0064432041 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Pub. Date: October, 1992 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Thanksgiving Is for Giving Thanks (Railroad Books Series) by Margaret Sutherland, Sonja Lamut ISBN: 0448422867 Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $3.49 |
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Title: The Night Before Thanksgiving (Reading Railroad Books) by Natasha Wing, Tammie Lyon ISBN: 0448425297 Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $3.49 |
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