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  • The Roanoke Colony: America's First Mystery (History Comics)

The Roanoke Colony: America's First Mystery
(History Comics)

Illustrator
Chris Schweizer
Publication Date
June 30, 2020
Genre / Grade Band
Non-fiction /  4th − 5th
Language
English
Format
Graphic Novel
Informational Text
Includes Back Matter
The Roanoke Colony: America's First Mystery (History Comics)

Description

Uncover the secrets behind the mysterious disappearance of the Roanoke Colony, America's first English settlement.

More than a century before the Mayflower, a group of English settlers vanished from their Roanoke Island colony without a trace. This graphic novel dives into the investigation, exploring the colonists' arrival, their interactions with the native population, and the competing theories about their ultimate fate. Prepare for a story of pirates, political intrigue, and a historical mystery that endures to this day.

Publication date
June 30, 2020
Genre
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781250174352
Publisher
First Second
Series
History Comics
Universe
History Comics
First Second Comics
BISAC categories
JNF025180 - Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States/State & Local
JNF025190 - Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States/Colonial & Revolutionary
JNF062020 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Comics & Graphic Novels | History
Library of Congress categories
History
16th century
Cartoons and comics
Comics (Graphic works)
Nonfiction comics
Roanoke Colony
Roanoke Island (N.C.)
Chris Schweizer

Chris Schweizer has been a college professor, a hotel manager, a movie theater projectionist, a guard at a mental hospital, a martial arts instructor, a set builder, a church music leader, a process server, a life-drawing model, a bartender, a car wash attendant, a bagboy, a delivery boy, a choirboy, a lawn boy, a sixth-grade social studies teacher, a busker, a janitor, a speakeasy operator, a video store clerk, a field hand, a deck hand, a puppeteer for a children's television show, a kickboxer, and a line worker at a pancake mix factory. But now he's a cartoonist, and he likes that best.

Chris is the author and illustrator of Maker Comics: Fix a Car!

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