When 12-year-old Samuel Collier boards a ship bound for the New World, he can\'t believe his good fortune.
As he learns the language of the Algonquian Indians and observes Captain Smith\'s wise diplomacy, Samuel begins to see that he can be whomever he wants to be in this new land..
The lush Virginia shore where they establish the colony of James Town is both beautiful and forbidding, and it\'s hard to know who\'s a friend or foe.
But beginning with the stormy journey and his first contact with the native people, he realizes that the New World is nothing like he imagined.
He\'s heard that gold washes ashore with every tide.
So when he becomes the page of Captain John Smith and boards the Susan Constant, bound for the New World, he can\'t believe his good fortune.
Twelve-year-old Samuel Collier is a lowly commoner on the streets of London.
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Collier learns he can be whomever he wants in the New World settlement of Jamestown.
When 12-year-old Samuel Collier boards a ship bound for the New World, he can\'t believe his good fortune
