How Many Days to America?
A Thanksgiving Story
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · October 1, 1990
After the police come, a family is forced to flee their Caribbean island and set sail for America in a small fishing boat.
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- Who it’s for
- A Thanksgiving story that brings migration and the search for safety into view.
- Themes
- Forced migration, Family displacement, Sea voyage
- Genres
- Immigration & Moving, Thanksgiving Stories, Family Stories
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After the police come, a family is forced to flee their Caribbean island and set sail for America in a small fishing boat.
Home and Arrival
A Thanksgiving story that brings migration and the search for safety into view.
Come here for
- A family’s journey from a Caribbean island toward America
- A way to connect Thanksgiving with questions of home and refuge
Expect
- A brief, focused story of forced flight
- A family’s passage in a small fishing boat
Where it sits
| Immigration & Moving | 86% |
|---|---|
| Thanksgiving Stories | 58% |
| Family Stories | 44% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Baby Animals
- New Baby Stories
- Historical Fiction
- Halloween Stories
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- Kwanzaa
- Thanksgiving Stories
- Birthday Stories
- Hanukkah Stories
- Authors
- Eve Bunting
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- October 1, 1990
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Forced migration · Family displacement · Sea voyage
- Reading lane
- Baby Animals