About this title: From the award-winning author of "Stealing Freedom." When 12-year-old Samuel Collier boards a ship bound for the New World, he can't believe his good fortune. Collier learns he can be whomever he wants in the New World settlement of Jamestown.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Puffin
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780142409329ISBN:0142409324
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Childrens Books
Date Published: 2006-05-04
ISBN-13:9780670060603ISBN:0670060607
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780670060603ISBN:0670060607
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"Well researched and full of interesting facts and disgusting details that will appeal to its target audience, the book still feels pedantic at heart. It could have been a well done bit of young-adult non-fiction (a genre that really doesn't exist). Instead, we get half-drawn characters and a story in the present tense. Is there anything less natural than the present tense? Samuel is, unfortunately, not much of a character. He is mostly a cipher that your eleven year old male reader might identify with dressed up with some cliched internal conflicts. All of that said, kids really do enjoy the book and learn a great deal from it. I just wish it would put its foot down on one side or the other: a book to teach about James Town or a novel about characters I care about."
"This book was excellent it was really good! I loved the way it was action packed and it described a lot about Jamestown. Well it is about an orphan boy named Samuel. Who goes to the new world with all the early settlers of Jamestown. It is a great book it tells you wat they all go through in the beginning of Jamestown."
"Blood on the River This book is about a kid that try's to get his moms locket back by going to this pawnshop in a little town. He goes there at night and try's steeling it bask but he caught by the owner and the owner brings him some were I don't know were but some were that has another guy. The owner and the anther person asked why he did what he did then they let him go. Then they go on about British people on a ship and there in a bad storm and there ship is rocking back a forth it was squeaking and it was a old wooden boat. I'm not done with the book so I don't know much about it. But I told you as much as I know. The resign he tries to get the locket back is because his mom died."
"The historical information in the novel is fascinating, but it doesn't really work as a novel for me. There is almost no characterization. There were times when I forgot the protagonist's name and personality completely. This book is written in first person, by the way! Also, it has no conclusionk, and it stops before it gets to the really gory details. If you're going to write about a truly sad and vomit-inducing moment in history, you shouldn't cheat your audience. In addition, several characters in the book predict that Sam will become something more one day, but Carbone never realizes that promise. There was no closure, no real ending."
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