Carbone, Elisa. Blood on the River: James Town 1607.(young adult book)(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)

CARBONE, Elise. Blood on the river: James Town 1607. Penguin, Viking. c2006, bibliog. 256p. 0-670-06060-7. $16.99. J

Carbone has drawn from journals and letters from historical archives and written them into the story of Samuel Collier, a young man who accompanied Captain John Smith to the New World. Samuel's back-story is fictional but believable, giving voice to the details of the ocean crossing, the class struggles in the colony and the first hard years of the Virginia Company colony. Through Samuel and his telling of the story, the historical characters are given…