num_pages: 192
description: Nathaniel and Richard are delighted when Captain John Smith hires them as laborers aboard a ship bound for the New World. They will discover gold! Instead, they find that Virginia is a land of both beauty and terrible hardship. If starvation does not kill them, bitter cold night might.
language: English
title: 1609: Winter of the Dead: A Novel of the Founding of Jamestown
titlecomplete: 1609: Winter of the Dead: A Novel of the Founding of Jamestown (Young Founders)
characters: Richard Mutton, Nathaniel Peacock
genres: Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 52
places: Virginia, Jamestown, Virginia
publisher: Tor Teen