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Will Poole's Island

by Tim Weed

Ages: 12+

Published: 2014

Publisher: Namelos

ISBN: 978-1-60898-173-1

Keywords: Native Americans, Plantations, Escape

Will rejects the restrictions of his fellow settlers of Connecticut Colony in 1643. He spends time in the wilderness where he meets an Indian to whom his fate is linked.