Book Lists
Preschool	Ages 4 - 8	Ages 9 - 12	Teen/YA
General Fiction	Mystery	Romance	Non-Fiction
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Infant to Preschool (Listed by Title)

Maribeth Boelts, Terry Widener ~ The Firefighters' Thanksgiving

William Boniface, Lynn Adams (Illustrator) - Five Little Turkeys

Alyssa Satin Capucilli, Pat Schories (Illustrator) - Biscuit Is Thankful

Kelli Chipponeri - Snuffy's Thanksgiving (Jay Jay the Jet Plane #3)

Valerie Garfield ~ The Pumpkin Pie Thanksgiving Puzzle (Sergeant Sniff Scratch-And-Sniff Mystery)

Eric Hill - Spot's Thanksgiving (Spot)

Joan Holub - Turkeys Never Gobble

Alison Jackson - I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie

Sarah-Margaret Johanson ~ Caillou Happy Thanksgiving (Confetti)

Laura Krauss Melmed, Mark Buehner (Illustrator) - This First Thanksgiving Day: A Counting Story

Steve Metzger ~ Dinofours, It's Thanksgiving

Tomie de Paola ~ My First Thanksgiving

Lizzy Rockwell - Thanksgiving Day

Anne F. Rockwell ~ Pumpkin Day, Pumpkin Night

Anne F. Rockwell  ~ Thanksgiving Day

Richard Scarry - Richard Scarry's The First Thanksgiving of Low Leaf Worm

Russell Spina ~ Mickey's Thanksgiving (Up to age 6)

Suzy-Jane Tanner ~ The Tasty Thanksgiving Feast

Kiki Thorpe - A Comfy, Cosy Thanksgiving (Bear in the Big Blue House)

Wendy Wax- The Runaway Turkey

Stephen White ~ Barney's Thanksgiving

Sarah Willson, Robert Roper (Illustrator)- Dora's Thanksgiving

Harriet Ziefert, Deborah Zemke ~ This is Thanksgiving

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Ages 4 - 8 (Listed by Author)

David A. Alder ~ Happy Thanksgiving

Louisa May Alcott ~ An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving

Debby Atwell - The Thanksgiving Door

Lorna Balian, Lecia Balian (illustrator) ~ Sometimes It's Turkey, Sometimes It's Feathers

Steven Banks ~ Thanks a Lot, Robo-Turkey! (Jimmy Neutron)

Robert Merrill Bartlett, Sally Wern Comport (Illustrator) ~ Story of Thanksgiving

Teresa Bateman, Jeff Shelly (illustrator) ~ Plump and Perky Turkey

Adam Beechen ~ In a Tizzy Over Turkey (Fairy Odd Parents)

Jane Belk ~ Word Bird's Thanksgiving Words

Norman Bridwell ~ Clifford's Thanksgiving Visit

Stan Berenstain  Jan Berenstain ~ The Berenstain Bears and the Prize Pumpkin

Paulette Bourgeois ~ Franklin's Thanksgiving (Frankin, 28)

Eve Bunting ~ How Many Days to America: A Thanksgiving Story

Alyssa S. Capucilli ~ Happy Thanksgiving, Biscuit

Truman Capote ~ A Christmas Memory, One Christmas, & A Thanksgiving Visitor

Nancy White Carlstrom ~ Thanksgiving Day at Our House: Poems for the Very Young

Denys Cazet ~ Minnie and Moo and the Thanksgiving Tree

Michael A. Chavez, Jr. ~ Adventures of Tom Turkey: Thanksgiving in the White House

Lydia Marie Child ~ Over the River and Through the Woods (An Owlet Book)

Barbara Cohen ~ Molly's Pilgrim

Carol Crane, Helle Urban (Illustrator) - P is for Pilgrim: A Thanksgiving Alphabet

Debbie Dadey, Marcia Thornton Jones ~ Swampmonsters Don't Chase Wild Turkeys: Thanksgiving Special

Alice Dalgliesh ~ The Thanksgiving Story

Diane Degroat (Illustrator) - We Gather Together...Now Please Get Lost!

Wende Devlin  With Harry Devlin ~ Cranberry Thanksgiving

Judith Ross Enderle, Stephanie Jacob Gorden ~ Hide-and-Seek Turkeys

Jack Gantos ~ Rotten Ralph's Thanksgiving Wish

Gail Gibbons ~ Thanksgiving Is…

Patricia Reilly Giff ~ The Candy Corn Contest (Kids of Polk Street School)

Diane Goode - Thanksgiving Is Here!

Rhonda Gowler Greene - The Very First Thanksgiving Day

Heather French Henry ~ The Cornbread Kitchen: A Thanksgiving Day Story

Charlotte Herman, et al - The Memory Cupboard: A Thanksgiving Story

Katy Hall, Lisa Eisenberg ~Turkey Ticklers: Knock-Knock Jokes (Lift-The-Flap Knock-Knock Book)

Linda Hayward ~ The First Thanksgiving

Gary Hines, Alexandra Wallner (Illustrator) - Thanksgiving in the White House

Lee Bennett Hopkins ~ Merrily Comes Our Harvest in: Poems for Thanksgiving

Jodi Huelin ~ Countdown to Thanksgiving

Garnet Jackson ~ The First Thanksgiving (Hello Reader!, Level 3)

Alison Jackson ~ I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie

Tony Johnson, Rich Deas ~ Ten Fat Turkeys

Anne Kamma ~ If You Were at the First Thanksgiving

Leslie Kimmelman - Round the Turkey: A Grateful Thanksgiving

Cynthia Fitterer Klingel, Robert B. Noyed ~ Thanksgiving (Wonder Books)

Jackie French Koller  ~ Nickommoh: A Thanksgiving Celebration

Patricia Lakin ~ Fat Chance Thanksgiving

Jessica Lissy ~ Blue's Thanksgiving Feast

Maryann Cocca-Leffler ~ Thanksgiving at the Tappletons'

Abby Levine ~ This Is the Turkey

Krys V. Lewicki ~ Thanksgiving Day in Canada

Wendy Cheyette Lewison ~ Happy Thanksgiving!

W. Nikola-Lisa ~ 1, 2, 3 Thanksgiving!

Louise Mandrell ~ Runaway Thanksgiving: A Story about the Meaning of Thanksgiving

Julie Markes ~ Thanks for Thanksgiving

David F. Marx ~ Thanksgiving (Rookie Read-About Holidays)

Jean Marzollo ~ Thanksgiving Cats (Read With Me)

Claire Masurel, Susan Calitri ~ Happy Thanksgiving Emily!

Dandi Daley MacKall, Gene Barretta - Off to Plymouth Rock

Arnold McCully  ~ An Outlaw Thanksgiving  Emily

Kate H. McMullan ~ Fluffy Goes to School

Eric Metaxas, Michael Donato (Illustrator) ~ Squanto and the First Thanksgiving

Harold Lawrence Myra - Thanksgiving: What Makes It Special

Rachel O'Connor ~ Thanksgiving (My Library of Holidays)

Mary Pope Osborne - Thanksgiving on Thursday (Magic Tree House, 27)

Carol Antoinette Peacock, Doris Ettlinger ~ Pilgrim Cat

Susan Pearson ~ The Campfire Ghosts (Eagle-Eye Ernie)

Pamela Pease - Macy's on Parade: A Pop-Up Celebration of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

Dave Pilkey ~ Twas the Night before Thanksgiving

Daniel Manus Pinkwater ~ Big Bob and the Thanksgiving Potato (Hello Reader! Series)

Watty Piper - The Little Engine That Could Saves the Thanksgiving Day Parade (Reading Railroad)

Jack Prelutsky ~ It's Thanksgiving, Greenwillow (Read-Alone Bks) Poems

Elsa Okon Rael ~ Rivka's First Thanksgiving

Kitty Richards ~ The Turkey Who Came to Dinner (Rugrats)

Bethany Roberts ~ Thanksgiving Mice!

Connie Roop ~ Let's Celebrate Thanksgiving

Michael J. Rosen ~ Thanksgiving Wish

Kathy Ross, Sharon Lane Holm ~ All New Crafts for Thanksgiving

Karen Gray Ruelle - The Thanksgiving Beast Feast: A Harry & Emily Adventure (A Holiday House Reader, Level 2)

Julian Scheer ~ A Thanksgiving Turkey

Charles M. Schulz  ~ A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

Cecile Schoberle ~ The Thanksgiving Parade Surprise

Mavis Smith - 'Twas the Day After Thanksgiving

Michele Sobel Spirn ~ The Know-Nothings Talk Turkey (I Can Read) - I Am the Turkey (I Can Read Book 2)

Eileen Spinelli, JoAnn Adinolfi (Illustrator) - The Perfect Thanksgiving ~ Thanksgiving at the Tappleons' (reillustrated edition)

Timothy Sean Sykes ~ F'Lumps Adventures with Timmy and Friends, Adventure #1: The Thanksgiving Bird

Margaret Sutherland  ~ Thanksgiving Is for Giving Thanks (Railroad Books Series)

Bruce Talkington ~ Winnie the Pooh's Thanksgiving: Pooh Says Thanks

Marlo Thomas, Christopher Cerf (Editor) ~ Thanks & Giving: All Year Long

Kim Watson ~ The Extra-Thankful Thanksgiving with Sticker

Kimberly Weinberger ~ Our Thanksgiving (My First Hello Reader)

Nadine Bernard Westcott ~ Thanksgiving in the Barn

Lisa Wheeler - Turk and Runt

Natasha Wing ~ The Night before Thanksgiving

Joanne Winne ~ Let's Get Ready for Thanksgiving (Celebrations)

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Ages 9 - 12 (Listed by Author)

David A. Adler ~ The Fourth Floor Twins and the Silver Ghost Express (Fourth Floor Twins No. 4)

Robert Merrill Bartlett  ~ The Story of Thanksgiving

Edna Barth ~ Turkeys, Pilgrims, and Indian Corn: The Story of the Thanksgiving Symbols

Bonnie Bryant ~ Cross-Ties (Pine Hollow, No 11)

Ilene Cooper ~ No-Thanks Thanksgiving (Vol. 5)

Joy Cowley ~ Gracias, the Thanksgiving Turkey

Diane De Groat ~ Annie Pitts, Burger Kid

Judy Delton  Alan Tiegreen ~ Peanut Butter Pilgrims (Pee Wee Scouts Series No. 6)

Betsy Duffey ~ Cody's Secret Admirer (Puffin Chapters)

Steve Freeman ~ Family and Food and Orange Soda (Nickelodeon, Kenan and Kel , No 2)

Deborah Fink ~ It's a Family Thanksgiving!

Arthur Geisert - Nursery Crimes

Catherine O'Neill Grace, Margaret M. Bruchac ~ 1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving (I Am American)

Barbara Greenwood ~ A Pioneer Thanksgiving: A Story of Harvest Celebrations in 1841

Katy Hall, Lisa Eisenberg - Turkey Riddles (Dial Easy-To-Read)

Robin Jarvis - The Final Reckoning - The Crystal Prison (Deptford Mice Trilogy)

Carolyn M. Keene ~ Thanksgiving Surprise (Nancy Drew Notebooks Series No. 9)- Turkey Trouble (Nancy Drew Notebooks Series #56)

Marion M. Markham ~ Thanksgiving Day Parade Mystery

Ann M. Martin ~ Claudia and the First Thanksgiving (Baby-Sitters Club Series No. 91)

Ann M. Martin ~ Karen's Turkey Day (Baby-Sitters Little Sister Series No. 67)

Laura Krauss Melmed   ~ This First Thanksgiving Day (poetry)

Carol W. Murphy ~ Smashed Potatoes and Other Thanksgiving Disasters

Francine Pascal, Jamie Suzanne ~ Sisters at War (Sweet Valley Twins, No 111)

Francine Pascal ~ Best Thanksgiving Ever (Sweet Valley Kids Series No. 34)

Carol Antoinette Peacock, Doris Ettlinger ~ Pilgrim Cat

Steve Potts ~ Thanksgiving (Holiday Series)

Dana Meachen Rau ~ Thanksgiving (True Books)

Anne Warren Smith, Wendy McClure (Editor) - Turkey Monster Thanksgiving

Diane Stanley, Holly Berry (Illustrator) ~ Thanksgiving on Plymouth Plantation

Ricki Stern, Heidi Pesky Worcester - Mission: Impossible Friendship (Beryl E. Bean)

Laura E. Williams ~ Thanksgiving Fiesta (Let's Have a Party  Series No. 6)

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Young Teen / Young Adult

Bonnie Bryant - Cross-Ties (Pine Hollow Series #11)

Terry Coleman - Thanksgiving: A Novel (Teen)

Brent Hartinger - The Last Chance Texaco (Teen) Thansgiving/Christmas

Dandi Daley Mackall - Unhappy Appy (Winnie the Horse Gentler #5)

Joan Lowery Nixon ~ The Thanksgiving Mystery (Teen)

Eugenia Van Vliet - Thanksgiving (Young Adult)

 

 

General Fiction (Listed by Author)

Susan Bowden ~ Bitter Harvest

Barbara Taylor Bradford ~ Power of a Woman

Julie Edelsone ~ Courting Disaster

Dana Elian ~ Music of My Heart

Jay McInerney  ~ Model Behavior

Matthew McLean - Locked up, Freed, Busted

Lawrence Naumoff ~ The Night of the Weeping Women

Jane Shapiro ~ Dangerous Husband

Ben Sherwood - The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud

Anne Rivers Siddons ~ Up Island (fiction / literary romance)

Sandy Stephen ~ Thanksgiving Over Water

Lolly Winston - Good Grief

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Romance (Listed by Author)

Marylee Anderson ~ A Million Tomorrows  (Precious Gem 19)

Stella Bagwell  ~ Their First Thanksgiving (Silhouette 903)

Rebecca Brock ~ The Giving Season (Contemporary)

Sue Civil-Brown ~ Tempting Mr. Wright (Contemporary)

Marisa Carroll ~ Before Thanksgiving Comes (Harlequin SuperRomance 811)

Suzanne Carey ~ Home For Thanksgiving (Silhouette 825)

Megan Crane - English as a Second Language (refers to xmas & thanksgiving)

Janet Evanovich ~ Thanksgiving (Loveswept 289)

Christine Flynn ~ Logan's Bride (Contemporary - The Whitaker Brides)

Jillian Hart ~ Holiday Homecoming (Contemporary /Inspirational)

Metsy Hingle ~ Navy Dad (Silhouette Desire 1416)

Christine Janssen ~ Nightmare Run (Romantic Suspense) Includes a colonial house tour called Thanksgiving in the Country, it's a real tour in real life Hunterdon County NJ. Epilogue takes place on the actual tour.

David Kay ~ Disappear (Contemporary - Harlequin SuperRomance 1074)

Sandra Kitt ~ Someone's Baby (Contemporary - Harlequin American Romance-399)

Debbie Macomber ~ Return to Promise - (Contemporary) ~Thanksgiving Prayer (Silhouette Intrigue 21)

Fern Michaels - No Place like Home

Susan Elizabeth Phillips - Lady Be Good (Contemporary Romance)

Roszel, Renée ~ No More Mr. Nice  (Harlequin Temptation 468)

Lois Richer ~ Baby on the Way / Daddy on the Way (Love Inspired)

Janet Spaeth ~ Angel's Roost (Contemporary /Song-522 )

Anita Lourcey Tooke ~ Out Of Her Dreams (Romantic Suspense)

Margaret Watson ~ A Thanksgiving to Remember (Silhouette Intimate Moments 1035)

Leanna Wilson ~ Open in Nine Months (Harlequin American Romance, 847)

Anthologies

A Delaney Christmas Carol - Hooper/Johansen/Preston (Anthology)

Friends, Families, Lovers ~ Eagle, Kitt, Dale (Anthology)

The Harvest (Anthology) ~ Martin/Rutledge (Anthology/Inspirational)

Harvest Hearts (Anthology) - Hannah, Paisley, Cassity, Harlow

Holiday Blessings: Thanksgiving Prayer / The Risk of Loving / Home for the Holidays ~ Macomber, Hannon, Peart (Anthology / Inspirational)

Romancing the Holidays, Vol. 2 - Laurie Schnebly Campbell, Christine W. Murphy, Lee Emory

Seasons of Romance ~ Elaine Hopper - Pamela Johnson - Sher Hames Torres - Su Kopil - Ruth D. Kerce (Halloween & Christmas)

Trueblood Christmas - Kate Hoffmann, Tara Taylor Quinn - - (Harlequin)

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Mystery (Listed by Author)

Cat Crimes for the Holidays - edited by Martin H. Greenberg, Ed Gorman, and Larry Segriff (Hanukkah/Christmas)

Natural Suspect - William Bernhardt, Philip Margolin, Brad Meltzer, and Lisa Scottoline

Bob Berger - The Risk of Fortune (Dr. Risk Mystery series)

Claire Bugge ~ Who Killed Mona Lisa? (Contemporary Mystery) (A Claire Rawlings Mystery)

Mary R Daheim ~ Alpine Fury ~ Fowl Prey (A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery)

Claire Daniels - Final Intuition

Barbara D'Amato ~ Hard Tack  ~ Hard Christmas (A Cat Marsala Mystery)

Jeanne M. Dams - Sins Out of School

Michael Dibdin - Thanksgiving (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

Joanne Dobson ~ Raven and the Nightingale (A Modern Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe)

Katherine V Forrest ~ The Beverly Malibu (Kate Delafield Mystery)

Jane Haddam ~ Feast of Death ~ Feast of Murder (Gregor Demarkian Mystery)

Lee Harris  ~ The Thanksgiving Day Murder (Chris Bennett Mystery)

Robin Hathaway - Doctor Makes a Dollhouse Call

Faye Kellerman ~ Serpent's Tooth (A Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Novel)

Harry Kemelman ~ That Day the Rabbi Left Town (Rabbi Small Mystery)

Clyde Linsley - Death of a Mill Girl (Thanksgiving plays an important role.)

Georgette Livingston ~ The Telltale Turkey Caper (Contemporary Mystery) (A Jennifer Gray Veterinarian Mystery)

Margaret Maron   ~ Up Jumps the Devil

Leslie Meier   ~ Turkey Day Murder  (A Lucy Stone Mystery)

Ralph McInerny - Celt and Pepper (Academic Mystery - Notre Dame) - Thanksgiving dinner takes place in the story line.

Deborah Morgan - The Marriage Casket (covers Thanksgiving and Christmas)

Cathy Pickens - Southern Fried

Ann Ripley ~ Harvest of Murder (Contemporary Mystery- Amateur) (A Gardening Mystery-Eldridge)

Sarah Shaber   ~ Snipe Hunt  (Academic Mystery) (A Professor Simon Shaw Mystery)

Denise Swanson - Murder of a Barbie and Ken

Marcia Talley ~ Occasion of Revenge (Hannah Ives Mystery)

Angela Zeman ~ The Witch and the Borscht Pearl (Contemporary Mystery-Amateur) (A Mrs. Risk Mystery)

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Non-Fiction (Listed by Author)