1609: Winter of the Dead

A Novel of the Founding of Jamestown

Young Founders (Volume 1 of 4)

Elizabeth Massie

Tor Teen

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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.

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March 11, 1607
At last, praise God, the Susan Constant has eased its rolling and I am able to write. For 50 days we have been sailing from London across these wretched waters, and for these many days we have been biding our time, some not as well as others. Unlike some men down here on the ’tween deck, I have a strong stomach and the pitching of the ship rarely bothers me. But the other passengers, many gentlemen and wealthy fortune-seekers, whine like babies when we rock back and forth in the waves.

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"It is an eye-opener to read about free blacks (as they were called then) fighting on both sides of the Revolutionary War, and as a librarian I welcome this." - Kliatt on 1776: Son of Liberty
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Elizabeth Massie

Elizabeth Massie is author of numerous novels for young adult, middle grade, and primary readers. These include the Young Founders series, the Daughters of Liberty trilogy, The Great Chicago Fire: 1871, The Fight for Right, Read All About It, and more. A former middle school teacher, Elizabeth enjoys exploring both important and little-known moments in American history and presenting those moments to readers through the struggles and triumphs of her characters.  
     Elizabeth lives in the historic Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, very close to where her family moved in 1747. She says, “Every place is historic. Well-known or not, every town, city, and county has its own compelling tale of people and events, a story that plays a part in the continuing story that is our history.”  

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1609: Winter of the Dead
A Novel of the Founding of Jamestown
Young Founders (Volume 1 of 4)
Elizabeth Massie

Mass Market Paperbound

Mass Market Paperbound
Tom Doherty Associates
Tor Teen
March 2007
Mass Market Paperbound
ISBN: 9780765356048
ISBN10: 076535604X
Young Adult Fiction
5 3/16 x 7 5/8 inches, 192 pages
Age Range: 13 and up
Grade Range: 8 and up
$5.99

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Mass Market Paperbound
Tom Doherty Associates
Tor Teen
March 2000
Mass Market Paperbound
ISBN: 9780812590937
ISBN10: 0812590937
Young Adult Fiction
4 3/16 x 6 3/4 inches, 192 pages
Age Range: 13
Grade Range: 8 and up
$4.99
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