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Illustrations by Ted Lewin

Houghton Mifflin Company
Boston 1987

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

O'Dell, Scott.
The serpent never sleeps.

Summary: In the early seventeenth century,
Serena Lynn, determined to be with the man she has
loved since childhood, travels to the New World and
comes to know the hardships of colonial life and the
extraordinary Princess Pocahontas.

1. Jamestown (Va)—History—Juvenile fiction.
2.Pocahontas, d. 1617—Juvenile fiction.
[1. Jamestown (Va.)—History—Fiction. 2 Pocahontas,
d. 1617—Fiction. 3. Virginia—History—Colonial
period, ca. 1600-1775—Fiction] I. Lewin, Ted, ill.
II. Title.
PZ7.0237Se 1987 [Fic] 87-3026
ISBN 0-395-44242-7

Copyright © 1987 by Scott O'Dell

All rights reserved. No part of this work may be
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for permission should be addressed in writing to Houghton
Mifflin Company, 2 Park Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02108.

Printed in the United States of America

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