Worlds Apart

by Kathleen Karr

Book Overview

Fifteen-year-old Christopher West narrates this tale of colonists who braved the Atlantic to become the first to arrive in the New World of Carolina. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477817107
• ISBN13: 9781477817100
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Two Lions
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 9 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 6

Customer Reviews

A deftly written novel about European colonists who crossed the dangerous Atlantic to arrive in the

Worlds Apart is a deftly written novel about European colonists who crossed the dangerous Atlantic to arrive in the strange new world of Carolina. Christopher West is the fifteen-year-old boy who narrates this fascinating story about making friends with Asha-po, a young Native American of his own age. Asha-po teaches Christopher how to hunt, and Christopher teaches Asha-po to play chess. But while the two boys are fast becoming friends, their respective peoples are at increasing odds with each other. Worlds Apart is a thoroughly entertaining and enthusiastically recommended adventure novel for young readers ages 10 and older that author Kathleen Karr has based on records from an actual colony and weaves a tale filled with marauding Spaniards, warring tribes, and colonial family conflict.