Dear America
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A journey to the New World: the diary of Remember Patience Whipple
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Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2011], c1996
Edition
[2011] ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The diary of a fictional fourteen-year-old girl living in Virginia, in which she describes the hardships endured by her family and friends during one year of the Civil War.
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Reinforced library ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"It's 1859 and Clotee, a twelve-year-old slave, has the most wonderful, terrible secret. She knows that if she shares it with the wrong person, she will face unimaginable consequences. What is her secret? While doing her job of fanning her master's son during his daily lessons, Clotee has taught herself to read and write. However, she soon learns that the tutor, Ely Harms, has a secret of his own. In a time when literacy is one of the most valuable...
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In the journal she receives for her twelfth birthday in 1835, Lucinda Lawrence describes the hardships her family and other residents of the "Texas colonies" endure when they decide to face the Mexicans in a fight for their freedom.
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Standing in the light: the captive diary of Catharine Carey Logan
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Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2010, c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In her diary in 1912, thirteen-year-old Margaret Ann describes how she leaves her lonely life in a London orphanage to become a companion to a wealthy American woman, sails on the Titanic, and experiences its sinking.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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While traveling in 1883 with her Italian American family (including a meddlesome little sister) and other immigrant pioneers to a utopian community in Idaho, fourteen-year-old Teresa keeps a diary of her experiences along the way.
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The girl who chased away sorrow: the diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo girl
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The great railroad race: the diary of Libby West
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Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1860 and 1861, while working in her father's lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware, fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War is beginning to devastate her divided state.
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In the diary account of her life at a government-run Pennsylvania boarding school in 1880, a twelve-year-old Sioux Indian girl reveals a great need to find a way to help her people.
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A diary account of thirteen-year-old Anetka's life in Poland in 1896, immigration to America, marriage to a coal miner, widowhood, and happiness in finally finding her true love.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
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In her fictionalized journal, eleven-year-old Minnie Swift recounts how her family dealt with the difficult times during the Depression and how the arrival of an orphan from Texas changed their lives in Indianapolis just before Christmas 1932.
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003, c2001
Edition
Reinforced library ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Amber Billows, upset to be moving once again to follow her father's reporting job, cannot help loving Hawaii, but the peace of her tropical paradise is shattered on December 7, 1941, when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor.
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Following her father's death from a disease that swept through her Nebraska town in 1881, teenaged Sarah Jane must find work to support herself and records in her diary her experiences as a young school teacher.
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A diary account of fourteen-year-old Susanna Fairchild's life in 1849, when her father succumbs to gold fever on the way to establish his medical practice in Oregon after losing his wife and money on their steamship journey from New York. Includes a historical note.
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The 1845-1846 diary of thirteen-year-old Maria, servant to the wealthy Spanish family which took her in when her Indian mother died. Includes a historical note about the settlement and early history of California.
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A diary account of thirteen-year-old Kathleen Bowen's life in Washington, D.C. in 1917, as she juggles concerns about the national battle for women's suffrage, the war in Europe, and her own school work and family. Includes a historical note.
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Teenage Simone's diaries for 1917 and 1918 reveal her experiences as a carefree member of New York society, then as a "Hello girl," a volunteer switchboard operator for the Army Signal Corps in France.
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1968 Massachusetts, after her brother Patrick goes to fight in Vietnam, fifteen-year-old Molly records in her diary how she misses her brother, volunteers at a Veterans' Administration Hospital, and tries to make sense of the war in Vietnam and the tumultuous events in the United States. Includes historical notes.
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Land of the buffalo bones: the diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, an English girl in Minnesota
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Love thy neighbor: the Tory diary of Prudence Emerson
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Hear my sorrow: the diary of Angela Denoto, a shirtwaist worker
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I walk in dread: the diary of Deliverance Trembley, witness to the Salem witch trials
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Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Brought up in France as the African slave companion of a nobleman's daughter, thirteen-year-old Zettie records the events of 1763, when she and her mistress escape to the New World where they are inadvertently drawn into the hostilities of the ongoing French and Indian War and, eventually, find a new direction to their lives.
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Thirteen-year-old Piper Davis records in her diary her experiences beginning in December 1941 when her brother joins the Navy, the United States goes to war, and her father--the pastor for a Japanese Baptist Church in Seattle--follows his congregants to an Idaho internment camp, taking her along with him.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
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From the winter of 1779 until 1781, Abigail Stewart and her family follow the path of her father's Continental Army unit after their Valley Forge home burns down, enduring harsh winters and scarce food, and narrowly escaping danger time and again.
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Two-time Newbery Award-winning author Lois Lowry brings a brand-new, beautiful diary to the Dear America series!Two-time Newbery Award-winning author Lois Lowry brings a brand-new, beautiful diary to the Dear America series!Suddenly orphaned by the Spanish flu epidemic in the fall of 1918, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her fourteen-year-old brother, Daniel, of Portland, Maine, are taken by their uncle to be raised in the Shaker community...
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With the might of angels: the diary of Dawnie Rae Johnson
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Behind the masks: the diary of Angeline Reddy
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A city tossed and broken: the diary of Minnie Bonner
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Down the rabbit hole: the diary of Pringle Rose
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