Dear America
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Scholastic Inc
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[2010], c1996
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English
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"Eleven-year-old Abigail Jane Stewart's fictionalized diary about her life, family, friends, and neighbors, and the sides they have to choose in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, during the height of the Revolutionary War, renders a vivid portrayal of one of the most memorable and crucial winters in American history." -- Provided by publisher.
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Joyce Hansen's Coretta Scott King Honor Book I THOUGHT MY SOUL WOULD RISE AND FLY is now back in print with a gorgeous new package!Patsy, an orphaned slave with a bad leg and a quiet nature, is considered slow by the Davis family. But Patsy's smart -- smart enough to learn to read and write on the sly. After the Civil War ends and slavery is abolished, Patsy believes Master Davis's promise to pay the former house slaves and to educate the slave children....
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So far from home: the diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish mill girl
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Dreams in the Golden Country: the diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish immigrant girl
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A line in the sand: the Alamo diary of Lucinda Lawrence
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One of the most popular Dear America diaries of all time, bestselling author Mary Pope Osborne's STANDING IN THE LIGHT is now back in print with a gorgeous new cover!Catharine Carey Logan and her family have enjoyed a peaceful and prosperous life as the Quakers and Delaware Indians share a mutually trusting relationship. Recently, however, this friendship has been threatened by violence against the Indians. Then, Catharine and her brother are taken...
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West to a land of plenty: the diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi
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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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My heart is on the ground: the diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux girl
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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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One eye laughing, the other weeping: the diary of Julie Weiss
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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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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Early Sunday morning: the Pearl Harbor diary of Amber Billows
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My face to the wind: the diary of Sarah Jane Price, a prairie teacher
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Seeds of hope: the gold rush diary of Susanna Fairchild
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Valley of the Moon: the diary of Maria Rosalia de Milagros
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Mirror, mirror on the wall: the diary of Bess Brennan
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Survival in the storm: the dust bowl diary of Grace Edwards
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A time for courage: the diary of Kathleen Bowen
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When Christmas comes again: the World War I diary of Simone Spencer
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Where have all the flowers gone?: the diary of Molly Mackenzie Flaherty
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All the stars in the sky: the Santa Fe trail diary of Florrie Mack Ryder
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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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English
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Critically acclaimed author Deborah Hopkinson's HEAR MY SORROW is back with a beautiful new cover!
Fourteen-year-old Angela Denoto and her family have arrived in New York City from their village in Italy to find themselves settled in a small tenement apartment on the Lower East Side. When her father is no longer able to work as a hod carrier, Angela must leave school and find a job in a shirtwaist factory. Despite being disappointed that she had...
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Scholastic
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[2011]
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English
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Twelve-year-old Deliverance Trembley writes in her diary about the fears that arise during the 1692 witch hunt and trials in Salem Village, Massachusetts, especially when her pious friend, Goody Corey, is condemned as a witch.
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Look to the hills: the diary of Lozette Moreau, a French slave girl
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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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, she attempts to document her life through photography, 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. Includes historical notes.
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Scholastic
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2011.
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English
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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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"In 1918, as the Great War rages in Europe, the Spanish influenza tears a brutal path across the United States, leaving devastation in its wake. Ordinary life is turned upside down as schools are closed, and all spheres of public life are shut down. Suddenly, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her older brother, Daniel, find themselves orphans of the flu, and are taken by their grieving uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake....
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Coretta Scott King winner Andrea Davis Pinkney brings her talents to a brand-new Dear America diary about the Civil Rights Movement.In the fall of 1955, twelve-year-old Dawn Rae Johnson's life turns upside down. After the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, Dawnie learns she will be attending a previously all-white school. She's the only one of her friends to go to this new school and to leave the comfort of all that is familiar to...
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Critically acclaimed and award-winning author Kristiana Gregory's ACROSS THE WIDE AND LONESOME PRAIRIE is now back in print with a gorgeous new package!After the death of her two sisters, thirteen-year-old Hattie and her family make for a fresh start. They sell their farm in Missouri and journey across the Oregon Trail toward Oregon City. At first the adventure is exciting, but as the days, weeks, and months pass, Hattie realizes what a dangerous...
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Scholastic
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2012.
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English
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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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Scholastic
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2013.
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English
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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.