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Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Language
English
Description
It is the Fall of 1941 and Madeline Beck is living with her mother at Mrs. Hawkins' Mansion-by-the-Sea, a boarding house on Long Island. Her father has been sent off to guard the Pacific coast on an aircraft carrier, and Madeline is very scared of all that she hears about the impending War in the Pacific. Will her Dad be alright? What if the Japanese decide to attack?
Along with her worries about the war and her father, she must also deal with
...2) A journey to the New World: the diary of Remember Patience Whipple : Mayflower/Plimoth Colony, 1620
Author
Series
Dear America volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
173 p. ill., maps 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Mem presents a diary account of the trip she and her family made on the Mayflower in 1620 and their first year in the New World.
Author
Series
Dear America volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
156 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
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.
Author
Series
Dear America volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
173 p. : ill. 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Abigail presents a diary account of life in Valley Forge from December 1777 to July 1778 as General Washington prepares his troops to fight the British.
Author
Series
Dear America volume 5
Language
English
Description
In 1859, twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
201 p. ; 20 cm.
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
197 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
204 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
169 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
205 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
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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