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The story of Jamestown

2006
Presents a short history of the founding of the Jamestown settlement in 1607 written in graphic novel format, and focuses on the settlers' encounters with Native Americans and their struggles to maintain a permanent settlement in the New World.

Shadows in the glasshouse

2000
While working as an indentured servant for a Jamestown glassmaker in 1621, twelve-year-old Merry uncovers a case of sabotage.

Pocahontas

a life in two worlds
2010
Examines the life and actions of Pocahontas, a young Native American woman who developed a friendship with English colonist John Smith and the people of Jamestown, and who later became a Christian and married colonist John Rolfe.

The paradox of Jamestown, 1585-1700

1998
Discusses the circumstances surrounding English colonization of Virginia and the evolution of slavery in that colony.

Jamestown

2006
Describes the founding and history of Jamestown, the first lasting English settlement in North America, discusses the contributions of the Powhatan Indians to the success of Jamestown, and looks at the excavation and reconstruction of the settlement.

Pocahontas

2003
An introduction to the life of the young seventeenth-century Indian woman who befriended Captain John Smith and the English settlers of Jamestown.

Captain John Smith

2002
Simple text and illustrations present the life story of seventeenth-century English explorer John Smith, covering his leadership of the Jamestown colony in America and his later years back in England.

The Jamestown Colony

2001
An account of the first permanent English settlement in North America, with all its tragedies and disasters, established in 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia.

John Smith escapes again!

2006
Describes daring escapes by seventeenth-century English explorer John Smith from such dangers as pirates, slave drivers, angry mobs, and attacks by Native Americans, which Smith relates in his own books.

Jamestown

the first English colony
2007
A short study of the Jamestown settlement in Virginia describing the colonist's encounters with the Powhatans and their struggles to survive, and contains a timeline and chronology.

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