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Product Description What if you sailed on the Mayflower? A different time...a different place...What if you were there? If you sailed on the Mayflower --What could you take with you? --How would you keep clean? --What would you do when you first got to shore? Get ready to go back in time to 1620 to discover what it was like to sail the Mayflower! About the Author Ann McGovern has written over 35 children's books, including STONE SOUP; several books in the IF YOU LIVED... series; and SCRAM, KID! (Viking, 1974), which won the Horn Book Award. McGovern spent part of her career at Scholastic, where she created the SeeSaw Book Club. McGovern lives in New York City. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Were the people on the ship friends? Some people were. Some people weren't. The sailors hated the Pilgrims. And the Pilgrims didn't like the sailors. The sailors made fun of the Pilgrims who got seasick. They called them "glib-gabbety puke stockings." One sailor said he wanted to throw half the Pilgrims into the sea. The sailors hated the Pilgrims' prayers and holy songs. The Pilgrims didn't like the sailors' bad language. But at the end of the voyage, the sailors had to admit that the Pilgrims had plenty of courage. And the Pilgrims were thankful that the sailors got them safely to the New World.