This is the 3rd in a series my daughter has enjoyed reading. I have read them also, and they seem to be well founded historical fiction appropriate for 8-10 year old children.
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I read these books to my children and this is the third and last of the series about Jamestown. We enjoyed the humor, sorrow, and frank examples of what life was like for these early settlers. Elizabeth became a real person and we were able to experience her struggles and triumphs as she grew during those first raw years here in America.
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Ten-year-old Elizabeth Barker has been learning to live without her mother, who died during a terrible time of disease and starvation in Jamestown Colony. But now, in the summer of 1610, things are beginning to improve. Elizabeth's twin brother, Caleb, has finally arrived in Jamestown to rejoin the family. But Elizabeth worries that her father wishes to remarry, and that he will choose sour Mistress Whistler. Elizabeth is...
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