Dear America
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A journey to the New World: the diary of Remember Patience Whipple
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When will this cruel war be over?: the Civil War diary of Emma Simpson
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The winter of red snow: the Revolutionary war diary of Abigail Jane Stewart
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Author
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Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 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.
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So far from home: the diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish mill girl
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Author
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Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[c1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Zippy, a Jewish immigrant from Russia, keeps a diary account of the first eighteen months of her family's life on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1903-1904.
8)
A line in the sand: the Alamo diary of Lucinda Lawrence
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9)
Standing in the light: the captive diary of Catharine Carey Logan
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Author
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Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
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.
11)
West to a land of plenty: the diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi
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12)
The girl who chased away sorrow: the diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo girl
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13)
The great railroad race: the diary of Libby West
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Author
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Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1999
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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My heart is on the ground: the diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux girl
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16)
A coal miner's bride: the diary of Anetka Kaminska
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Color me dark: the diary of Nellie Lee Love, the great migration North
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My secret war: the World War II diary of Madeline Beck
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20)
Christmas after all: the Great Depression diary of Minnie Swift
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21)
Early Sunday morning: the Pearl Harbor diary of Amber Billows
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22)
My face to the wind: the diary of Sarah Jane Price, a prairie teacher
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23)
Seeds of hope: the gold rush diary of Susanna Fairchild
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24)
Valley of the Moon: the diary of Maria Rosalia de Milagros
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Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1932, a twelve-year-old girl who lost her sight in an accident keeps a diary, recorded by her twin sister, in which she describes life at Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts.
26)
Survival in the storm: the dust bowl diary of Grace Edwards
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27)
A time for courage: the diary of Kathleen Bowen
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28)
When Christmas comes again: the World War I diary of Simone Spencer
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Author
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Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2002
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.
30)
All the stars in the sky: the Santa Fe trail diary of Florrie Mack Ryder
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31) Land of the buffalo bones: the diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, an English girl in Minnesota
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Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Polly Rodgers keeps a diary of her 1873 journey from England to Minnesota as part of a colony of eighty people seeking religious freedom, and of their first year struggling to make a life there, led by her father, a Baptist minister.
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Love thy neighbor: the Tory diary of Prudence Emerson
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33)
Hear my sorrow: the diary of Angela Denoto, a shirtwaist worker
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34)
I walk in dread: the diary of Deliverance Trembley, witness to the Salem witch trials
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35)
Look to the hills: the diary of Lozette Moreau, a French slave girl
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36)
The fences between us: the diary of Piper Davis
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37)
Cannons at dawn: the second diary of Abigail Jane Stewart
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Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After being orphaned during the influenza epidemic of 1918, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her fourteen-year-old brother are taken by their grieving uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake. Includes author's note about the Shakers.
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1955 Hadley, Virginia, twelve-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnson, a tomboy who excels at baseball and at her studies, becomes the first African American student to attend the all-white Prettyman Coburn school, turning her world upside down. Includes historical notes about the period.
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In the "wild west" of an 1880s California gold-mining town, Angeline investigates the supposed murder of her father, a famous criminal lawyer, who she and her mother are certain is still alive. Includes historical notes and instructions for making a mask from muslin.
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A city tossed and broken: the diary of Minnie Bonner
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Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
It is 1871 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and fourteen-year-old Pringle Rose, still grieving from the death of her parents, takes her brother Gideon, who has Down syndrome, escapes from her uncle and aunt, taking a train to Chicago--but disaster seems to follow her there.