Leonard Calvert and the Maryland Adventure

By Ann D. Jensen

Book Overview

Leonard Calvert was a quiet boy who grew up in England. When he was grown, Leonard went to Newfoundland with his father, George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore, and fought French privateers. When his father died, Cecil became the second Lord Baltimore, and led the first colonists to settle in Maryland. Leonard was just twenty-seven-years old when he became Maryland's first governor. He faced fierce Indians, unfriendly Virginia fur traders, and plundering pirates who wanted to chase him out of Maryland and take the colony away from the Calverts. Middle grades-ages 10-13.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764336851
• ISBN13: 9780764336850
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Schiffer Kids
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.8" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Maryland history

This is a great book for the unaware to learn about a piece of Maryland history. It is written in a format for the younger generation. I grew up in the area of the Lord Calvert mansion. I found this book very interesting.

Suitable for school reading list.

This book would be good for 8th grade Maryland students to have on a summer reading list, or for reading in some other fashion. Maryland was as much a site for "pilgrims," in the general sense of the word, as were the Congregationalist settlers in New England, who unfortunately have been allowed by writers of old elementary history books and song to appropriate the designation as a proper title. The name of Calvert is too little known. The Maryland settlement represented a first incidence in the colonies of a somewhat extended religious toleration, something noteworthy by its absence in Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay. The freedom of conscience now enjoyed in America was first conceived in the minds of the men who initially settled on the Maryland shores, and some would claim that spirit, despite subsequent severe attack on it, persisted in enough men through the generations to have a direct effect on the religious rights expressed in our constitution. Nice drawings, large print, glossary, and suitable length make it good for students. A+