As we prepare for Thanksgiving and all the craziness that ensues, here are a few books whose storylines center around the holiday we celebrate this week. Some may make you laugh, some may make you cry, and some just remind us what it is that we have to be thankful for.
From our eReatah family to yours, Happy Thanksgiving!
Douglas Kennedy
Manhattan, Thanksgiving Eve, 1945. A great, tragic love story; a tale of divided loyalties, decisive moral choices and the random workings of destiny.
Richard Bausch
Both a comedy and a love story, Thanksgiving Night is about the real meaning of family, and one particular clan that has many reasons to be thankful.
Suzanne Berne
Two sisters strikingly different since childhood and leading dissimilar lives now continue to struggle with different versions of a shared past, their conflict escalating to a dramatic, suspenseful climax as Thanksgiving day arrives.
Jennifer Vanderbes
Set on Thanksgiving Day 2007, Strangers at the Feast is at once a heartbreaking portrait of a family struggling to find happiness and an exploration of the hidden costs of the American dream.
Jim Grimsley
On a snowy Thanksgiving day in NC, a dreamy 8-year-old is pushed headlong into the adult world by a violent quarrel between his parents. A brilliant 1st novel, this is a shattering story of heartbreak, violence, and the endurance of the spirit.
Leslie Meier
Lucy intends to discover who left Metinnicut Indian activist Curt Nolan deader than the proverbial Thanksgiving turkey–with an ancient war club next to his head. But if she’s not careful, she just may find herself served up as a last-minute course, stone-cold dead with all the trimmings. . .
Rick Rodgers
With foolproof recipes, detailed menu timetables, and down-to-earth advice, Thanksgiving 101 is the holiday cook’s best friend.
Here are a few fun Thanksgiving reads for our young readers too!
Dorothy Goeller
Thanksgiving is not much fun for the turkey. Beginning readers count and learn rhyming words to find out the story of one little turkey.
Elaine Landau
When was the first Thanksgiving? How do we celebrate today? Learn all about this holiday’s symbols and traditions with this fun and easy-to-read book.
Paulette Bourgeois
Thanksgiving just won’t be the same without guests around the table, so Franklin decides to invite some friends for dinner. What a nice surprise it will be for his parents. Only Franklin’s mother and father have the same idea, and on Thanksgiving Day all their friends show up for the festivities!
The Nancy Drew Notebook Series By Carolyn Keene
Turkey Trouble – Who would steal a turkey? Will Nancy be able to catch the turkey-snatcher with no clues—or feathers—in sight?
The Thanksgiving Surprise – Nancy decides to investigate and finds out something very unexpected about her house guests and about having fun on the holidays.
Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew: The Thanksgiving Thief
Carolyn Keene
When Thanksgiving food around town starts to disappear, the Clue Crew realizes that someone is trying to destroy the holiday! Can the Crew catch these birdbrained bandits? Or will Thanksgiving dinner be a recipe for disaster?
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