How Many Days to America? A Thanksgiving Story

Written by Eve Bunting
Illustrated by Beth Peck

Grade:

K-3

ISBN-13:

978-0395547779

Publisher:

Sandpiper (1990)

Seeking the blessings of liberty, eager immigrants from an unnamed Caribbean nation set sail on a perilous journey to the United States. They face heavy seas, a leaky vessel, thieves, sickness, and hunger, but land in their new home on Thanksgiving Day, and find they have much to be thankful for indeed. Eve Bunting’s touching account is a classic immigrant story and resonates with all whose ancestors left a familiar world in search of a better life.