Making a History Connection

Blood on the River: James Town 1607 by Elisa Carbone

Here is a novel that will bring all that you have learned in history class to life! Elisa Carbone tells the story of how Jamestown came to be through the eyes of Samuel Collier, an 11-year-old orphan. Samuel is sent to the New World as a page to Captain John Smith.

Life was not easy for these new settlers. Battles with some nearby Native American tribes, befriending the Powhatan Indians, and learning their ways in order to not offend them, kept the Jamestown people busy. Winter nearly killed them.

Carbone shares her sources at the end of this novel. Her attention to providing historically accurate details makes this a book worth choosing!