chesapeake bay region (md. and va.)

Feeling deprived all her life of schooling, friends, mother, and even her name by her twin sister, Louise finally begins to find her identity.

Reports on the work of forensic scientists who are excavating grave sites in James Fort, in Jamestown, Virginia, to understand who lived in the Chesapeake Bay area in the 1600s and 1700s; and uncovers the lives of a teenage boy, a ship's captain, a colonial officer, an African slave girl, and others.

Feeling deprived all her life of schooling, friends, mother, and even her name by her twin sister, Louise finally begins to find her identity.

Feeling deprived all her life of schooling, friends, mother, and even her name by her twin sister, Louise finally begins to find her identity.

Having felt deprived all her life of schooling, friends, mother, and even her name by her twin sister, Louise finally begins to find her identity.

Describes the tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay, which forms the third largest watershed in the world, covering the people, geography, and habitats of the Chesapeake Bay area.

Describes how the Chesapeake Bay was formed, its early native inhabitants, the Jamestown years, settlements, the Chesapeake in wartime, today's Chesapeake, and modern efforts to save the ecosystem from abuse.

Seth Quinn returns from Europe a successful painter to settle down once again in the seaside town of St. Christopher, Maryland, and becomes interested in local florist Dru Whitcomb, but the course of true love does not run true when their pasts conspire to tear them apart.

Brief, simple text and detailed drawings recreate the world of the Shaw family, who lived in Virginia on a colonial plantation near the Chesapeake Bay for over 150 years, beginning in 1630.

While everyone pampers pretty Caroline, Louise's gifted twin sister, Louise takes comfort in the secrets of her island home, delving into the rich beauty of the waters of the Chesapeake Bay.