Poison in the Colony

✍ Scribed by Elisa Carbone

• Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group;Viking Children's Books
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 215 KB
• Edition: 4
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0425291847

✦ Synopsis

The fascinating companion title to the award-winning historical novel Blood on the River: James Town 1607.
After Captain John Smith establishes James Town in 1607. After Pocahontas learns the ways of the English. After early settlers both thrive and die in this new world . . . a girl is born. Virginia.
Virginia Laydon, an infant at the end of Blood on the River , has now grown up in a colony that is teetering dangerously on the precipice of conflict with the native Algonquins. Virginia has the gift, or the curse, of the knowing--an ability that could help save the colony, and is equally likely to land her at the burning stake as an accused witch.
Virginia struggles to make sense of her own inner world against the backdrop of pivotal years in the Jamestown colony. A government is established, the first enslaved Africans arrive, and the self-righteousness of the colony's leaders angers the Algonquin.
When Virginia's mother first learns of her...