![]() Why does she do this? Because she's lonely. Soon, we learn that Kimi's father, Wingina, was beheaded by the second group of colonists, and that Wanchese (he's her uncle) killed the people in the third group.ĭid you catch that? The English beheaded her father. She thinks of them as "strange ones." Some of her people think they are "spirits back from the dead" and others say that they have "invisible weapons that strike with sickness after they've gone." Kimi's father told her they were "people like us, only with different ways." But, her father is dead.ĭead? Yes. Having spent the last few months living in London, he dresses like English people but still has long hair. The first one took two Native men back to England: Mateo (a Croatoan) and Wanchese (a Roanoke). Before them, we read, there were three other groups. She is pregnant with Virginia (Virginia Dare is widely recognized as the first English person born in what came to be known as the United States).They are in the fourth English group that Kimi's people interact with. Among them is Governor White and his daughter. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Set in July 1587, Blue Birds is a Lost Colony story.Īlis and her family come ashore at Roanoke. In Caroline Rose Starr's Blue Birds, the two main characters are Alis, an English girl, and Kimi, a Roanoke girl. ![]()
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