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Title: How Many Days to America: A Thanksgiving Story

2. Author: Eve Bunting
3. Illustrator: Beth Peck
4. Publication date: January 1988
5. Genre: historical fiction
6. Reading Level: 3.1
7. Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
8. Summary: Home Many Days to America: A Thanksgiving Story is a story of a family
running away from soldiers. The family sacrifices everything in search of a better life.
9. Review:
Home Many Days to America: A Thanksgiving Story main theme is immigration;
reminding the reader how America is a place where people can be free. It is told from a
childrens point of view, and targets children in between four to seven years old. The
author presents a story that connects to students when learning about pilgrims, and
reviewing information about Thanksgiving Day. The connection to pilgrims and
Thanksgiving Day offers gratitude over values and beliefs from the past. The connection
is demonstrated at the end of the story when Bunting and Peck provides the reader with a
full two pages of illustrations and content that describe how grateful the family, in the
story, was to live in America. The illustrations are also drawn with detail on every page of
the book. Bunting, an immigrate herself, personally experienced life in a different
country; making the story more real and credible. Additionally, the story deeply connects
with a second book written by Bunting, The Green Apple, which both display characters
that are immigrants.