See more of this title: Samuel Eaton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy

Young Samuel Eaton has hardly slept from excitement! Today he will do a man's work--helping with his first rye harvest. But as his hands become blistered and the sun beats down, he wonders if he's up to the task. An American Bookseller Pick of the Lists with more than 23,000 hardcover copies sold. Full color.

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Samuel Eaton is a young boy living in an early American settlement in the year 1627, and today is the day he will help with his first rye harvest If he can prove to his father he's up to the task, he will be able to help with all of the harvest. But harvesting rye is even more difficult than he expected. Was he foolish to think he could do a man's work?