colonists

Discusses the lives of eight people who were responsible for the founding of colonial settlements from Massachusetts to Pennsylvania.

Discusses the lives of nine people who were responsible for founding or fostering the growth of settlements in the colonial American South.

In 1670, soon after arriving in the Carolinas with a group of colonists from England, fifteen-year-old Christopher West befriends a young Sewee Indian, Asha-po, and learns some hard lessons about survival, slavery, and friendship.

Examines the everyday lives of people living in the United States during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and covers the living conditions, family structures, diet, and leisure activities for colonial settlers.

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.

Simple text describes what life was like for a settler in Colonial America.

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.

An illustrated look at seventeenth-century English explorer John Smith's early life, his legendary rescue by Pocahontas, and his role in the founding of Virginia. Also includes a glossary, a time line, and a further-reading list.

Presents an introduction the different skills and often difficult lives of women on the farm, in business, and on the plantation as the owner's wife or as a slave in colonial America.

A biography of the colonist and explorer who led the struggling Jamestown colony through its early years and helped found Virginia.