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Jamestown

the beginning
1974
Describes the founding of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America.

Sam Collier and the founding of Jamestown

2006
Introduces life in colonial Jamestown, Virginia, as seen through the eyes of Sam Collier, John Smith's page, who works hard while wondering if he has the strength to survive in the New World.

Journey to Jamestown

2005
Elias comes to the new world, apprenticed to a barber-surgeon in Jamestown Colony, and when he arrives he meets Sacahocan, a Pamunkee Indian in training to be a medicine woman. Includes two stories, one from each character's perspective.

Jamestown, New World adventure

1998
Two English children are told the story of their grandfather's experiences as one of the original Jamestown colonists of 1607.

My Lady Pocahontas

a novel
2006
Nuttagwon, daughter of a minor Pamunkey chief, is still a girl when Pocahontas's vision of peace between their people and the newly-arrived English colonists bonds the two in a lifelong friendship as they work together to make the vision a reality.

The serpent never sleeps

a novel of Jamestown and Pocahontas
1989
In the early 17th century, Serena Lynn, determined to be with the man she has loved since childhood, travels to the New World where she meets John Smith.

The double life of Pocahontas

1987
A biography of the famous American Indian princess, emphasizing her life-long adulation of John Smith and the roles she played in two very different cultures.

Our strange new land

2002
Nine-year-old Elizabeth keeps a journal of her experiences in the New World as she encounters Indians, suffers hunger and the death of friends, and helps her father build their first home.

Two chimneys

1992
Having lived in Virginia for six years since 1622, Katherine does not want to leave her family's tobacco plantation after learning of her betrothment to an English heir.

Pocahontas

princess of the river tribes
1993
Tells the story of Pocahontas and shows how to copy and color the pictures of Indians and early American settlers.

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