1609: Winter of the Dead

Description:

Nathaniel and Richard are delighted when Captain John Smith hires them as laborers aboard a ship bound for the New World. They will discover gold! Instead, they find that Virginia is a land of both beauty and terrible hardship. If starvation does not kill them, bitter cold night might.

subjects: Immigrants,  Fiction,  Boys,  Fiction, general,  Boys, fiction,  Smith, john, 1580-1631, fiction,  Jamestown (va.), fiction,  Children's fiction

People: John Smith,  John Smith (1580-1631)

Places: Jamestown,  Jamestown (Va.)

Times: 1609