New World by Chris Priestley - 9780552568715
Penguin Random House Children's UK
New WorldAuthor(s): Chris Priestley\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK, United Kingdom\nImprint: Corgi Childrens\nISBN-13: 9780552568715, 978-0552568715\nSynopsis\nThe year is 1584 and fourteen-year-old Kit is living by his wits as a thief on the streets of Elizabethan London - a far-cry from his early childhood, when he lived a privileged life with his rich Catholic parents, who died when he was very small. The memory of his parents haunts Kit: his father was executed for plotting to kill the Queen but went to his death proclaiming his innocence. When Kit meets John White, a mapmaker and associate of Walter Raleigh, on the streets and White offers him a place in his household, Kit accepts. Soon Kit finds himself with White on board The Tiger, bound for the New World as part of a voyage to found a new colony in Virginia. After surviving the many weeks at sea, a great storm and contact with the Spanish along the American coast, The Tiger finally reaches.
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