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Blue birds caroline starr rose6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Rose skillfully paints the abject loneliness that primes both girls for friendship: Alis is the only girl in the settlement, and Kimi’s father was beheaded by colonists, who also brought the disease that killed her sister. The narrative immediately establishes a sense of urgency and danger when Alis and her fellow colonists arrive in Roanoke (not their intended destination), where they discover the previous settlers have disappeared further tension arises as Kimi reflects on the brutality her Roanoke tribe has already suffered at the hands of the British. In this historical novel about the lost colony of Roanoke, set in 1587 and written in free verse, Rose ( May B.) weaves two distinct, culturally diverse voices while tracing the developing friendship between Alis, a 12-year-old English settler, and a native girl named Kimi. ![]()
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