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Dear America
Dear America Marches On
Scholastic's popular
"Dear America" and "My Name Is America" books are part fiction, part
fact. In order to write these books, authors research important events
in American history and imagine what it would be like for a young
person to witness these moments. The authors then use their findings
to write a "diary" that can be read like a novel, from the point of
view of a girl or boy. Historical notes and photographs, which appear
at the end of each book, tell the true story that inspired the diary.
But the "Dear America" and "My Name Is America" volumes offer more
than just an interesting perspective. They present both triumphant
and embarrassing moments in US history. Every story has its beauty,
and every story has its ugliness. At their best, these diaries contain
surprises that will make you question official textbooks and TV reports
of historical fact.
--- Nathalie op de Beeck
Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan
Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady
Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl
Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell
West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl
A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple
When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson
A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl
The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart
So Far from Home: The Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl
A Line in the Sand: The Alamo Diary of Lucinda Lawrence
The Journal of James Edmond Pease: A Civil War Union Soldier
The Journal of William Thomas Emerson: A Revolutionary War Patriot
The Great Railroad Race: The Diary of Libby West
My Heart is on the Ground: The Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl
The Journal of Joshua Loper: A Black Cowboy, The Chisolm Trail, 1871
A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin
The Journal of Sean Sullivan: A Transcontinental Railroad Worker
The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559 Mirror Lake Internment Camp
The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo Girl, New Mexico, 1864
Dear America
(Scholastic)
___ Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon
Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell, 1847
___ A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska
Lattimer, Pennsylvania, 1896
___ Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, The
Great Migration North, Chicago, Illinois, 1919
___ Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah
Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl, New York City, 1903
___ The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah
Nita, a Navajo Girl, New Mexico, 1864
___ The Great Railroad Race: The Diary of Libby West,
Utah Territory, 1868
___ I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of
Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865
___ A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember
Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620
___ A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia
Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861
___ A Line in the Sand: The Alamo Diary of
Lucinda Lawrence, Gonzales, Texas, 1836
___ My Heart Is on the Ground: The Diary of Nannie Little
Rose, a Sioux Girl, Carlisle Indian School, Pennsylvania, 1880
___ A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave
Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia, 1859
___ So Far From Home: The Diary of Mary Driscoll, an
Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847
___ Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine
Carey Logan, Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763
___ Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret
Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912
___ West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino
Viscardi, New York to Idaho Territory, 1883
___ When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: The Civil War
Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Virginia, 1864
___ The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary
of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1777
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