Try to find some historical fiction! I'll look in my kids' reading suggestions for their history curriculum and I'll post if I find any appropriate titles.
Good idea! Have been reading Johnny Tremain, so have some good ideas. Am less interested in colonial life than what would spur a young man to go there on his own when he has no course of living in England. I am trying to find out more about indentureship and/or apprenticeship in merchants. 'Tremain' has good example of those, but I am hoping to find more concrete information.