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Puffin Books, 2007-01-11

Blood on the River: James Town, 1607

Blood on the River: James Town, 1607

Elisa Carbone, Author

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9780142409329

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When 12-year-old Samuel Collier boards a ship bound for the New World, he can't believe his good fortune. Collier learns he can be whomever he wants in the New World settlement of Jamestown. A "School Library Journal" Best Book of the Year.
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While many books on Jamestown chronicle Pocahontas, this captivates readers with Samuel Collins's struggle to survive in a hostile environment. Through well-written text, readers grow to understand how uninformed England was of the Colonists' dire situation.

Keywords and Themes: Acceptance • Action & Adventure • Community • Consequences • Courage • Historical • Juvenile Fiction • United States - Colonial & Revolutionary Periods

Readability • 5.1

Age Range • 10-0

Pages • 272

Subjects • Jamestown (Va.) • History • Virginia • Colonial period • ca. 1600-1775 • Powhatan Indians • Indians of North America • Young adult fiction

Categories • Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - Colonial & Revolutionary Periods • Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure

Twelve-year-old Samuel Collier is a lowly commoner on the streets of London. So when he becomes the page of Captain John Smith and boards the Susan Constant, bound for the New World, he can't believe his good fortune. He's heard that gold washes ashore with every tide. But beginning with the stormy journey and his first contact with the native people, he realizes that the New World is nothing like he imagined. The lush Virginia shore where they establish the colony of James Town is both beautiful and forbidding, and it's hard to know who's a friend or foe. As he learns the language of the Algonquian Indians and observes Captain Smith's wise diplomacy, Samuel begins to see that he can be whomever he wants to be in this new land.
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