The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce (My Name is America series)

Jasper is a young boy who comes to America aboard the Mayflower in 1620. The story tells about the crossing and its difficulties, the problems the colonists had when they got here and how they started their colony, how they dealt with the various Native American tribes that they encountered, and the terrible toll that disease took on the early settlers.

The book also goes into the Saints or Separatists, who were the Pilgrims, and the Strangers, who were those who were in the Church of England, and the differences between the two groups.

It's an interesting book, breathing some life into the usually 'just the facts, m'am' type of approach usually given to the Pilgrims.


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