Grades 5-6Committee Annotation:
Samuel Collier is bound for the New World of James Town in 1606 as Captain James Smith's servant. Follow his true, grueling adventures as he attempts to survive seasickness, treachery, raids, death and disease.
Subjects: Historical fiction, orphan, Colonial Life, Jamestown, Virginia, survival, Powhatan Indians, destruction of culture, primary sources.
Author web site: none
21 comments:
Sounds so cool !!
This is a great book, when I read this book I thought it would be boring. I was proven wrong! I I think many other kids will love this book. This is so good I sometimes thought I was the main character.
-JS
Suzanne
Charlestown School
Chariho
Blood On The River is a story about Samuel,an 11 year old boy who is sailing to Virginia in 1605. When they land, there are a lot of hard times! Will they survive? Find out in Blood On The River.
This was a great book.It was the kind of book that you cant put down.Iwould recomend this book to everyone I could!!!!
I loved reading this book. I would reccommend it to other people.
-Max
this was a great book. it is an interesting tale of a boy. his mom died so he is on his own now.he is taken onto a ship, barely survies the voyage,andis set loose into a new world where he dicovers a new him full of reliance and usefullness.
really good book...
the best book in the world
good book
this is the best book in the world
i thought this was a very good book and thought it was also very gory and bloody.I LOVED IT!!HAHA
Paige C.
John Wicks Elementary School
Warwick RI
The “Pilgrims” are going to Virginia in search of gold, but instead they face hunger
issues, death, sickness and birth. I really like how the author captured the characters feelings. For example when Samuel was in chains he said, “I am in so much pain right now this boat is so crowded and I am locked up, I cant even get out to go to the bathroom.” So, naturally I felt bad when something happened to the characters.
I recommend this book to people who like history and adventure.
This story is about a boy named Samuel, who was sent to the New World and changes his personality to wiser and kinder person. He suffers by wars, death between his people and the Indians. The author made the book more interesting by making me fell like I was there because the author wrote stuff like;"shierk like a demon`s cry" and it was more interesting then I thought.People who don`t like history, history will even enjoy this book too.Because this is one awsome book.
I love your book
If you like books on historicle fiction then you should read Blood On The River By Elsa Lynn Carbon
I thought this book was really scary.
T. Coggeshall Elementary
"The powder caught fire and exploded. It seared the flesh right off his leg.In agony,Captain Smith leaped overboard to cool the burn". Samuel Collier sails to the New World with Captain John Smith. Samuel meets Pocahontas and becomes friends with Richard. Reverend Hunt,their priest,taught Samuel how to love and care for someone.There are three deadly battles.In the battles many died but Samuel lived. In the first two battles the settlers lost but the one they won and "the Powhatan kingdom will be no more".
This wonderous book of adventure and excitement will let you travel back in time to 1607 because of the author's use of sensory language. For examle, "It is James, his thin body lying dead. "No", says Captain Gosnold gravely. This one is dead."
omg this book rocks
"Wow." That was literally my first reaction after finishing this book. There's great insight into what it was like in 1607 at Jamestown, and suspence to last a life time. I thought this book was AH-MAZING! However, I don't reccomend it to younger readers, due to the large ammount of violence.
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