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Thanksgiving on Thursday

  • 2002 first published
  • 73 pages
  • ★ 4.4 (5 ratings)
  • 22 editions

Mary Pope Osborne and Sal Murdocca's Thanksgiving on Thursday (2002) is a historical fantasy and time-travel fiction novella. The story is set in Plymouth, Mass. and Plymouth, in the 17th century. Readers will find themes of Thanksgiving Day, time travel, magic and brothers and sisters.

Open Library readers give it an average of 4.4 out of 5 from 5 ratings, and 90 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 22 editions across 5 languages.

At about 73 pages, most readers finish it in about an hour and a half.

About Thanksgiving on Thursday

Jack and Annie travel in their magic treehouse to the year 1621, where they celebrate the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians in the New Plymouth Colony.
Description from Open Library

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Era

Subjects

  • Thanksgiving Day
  • Pilgrims, New Plymouth Colony
  • Time travel
  • Thanksgiving Day in fiction
  • Time travel in fiction
  • Magic
  • Brothers and sisters
  • Fantasy
  • Space and time
  • Voyages and travels
  • Tree houses
  • Jack
  • Annie, Fictitious character : Osborne
  • Children's fiction
  • Thanksgiving day
  • Pilgrims, New plymouth colony

Quick answers

Who wrote Thanksgiving on Thursday?

Thanksgiving on Thursday was written by Mary Pope Osborne and Sal Murdocca and first published in 2002.

What genre is Thanksgiving on Thursday?

It is usually shelved as Historical Fantasy and Time Travel.

How long is Thanksgiving on Thursday?

The median edition has 73 pages, about about an hour and a half of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Thanksgiving on Thursday?

Readers who like it often enjoy Thanksgiving on Plymouth Plantation, Outlander and Hollow City.

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