My name is America

Author

Murphy, Jim Denenberg, Barry Myers, Walter Dean Durbin, William Lasky, Kathryn Rinaldi, Ann Yep, Laurence Philbrick, W. R Bruchac, Joseph Levine, Ellen White, Ellen Emerson Bartoletti, Susan Campbell Hite, Sid

1) The journal of James Edmond Pease: a Civil War Union soldier

Author

Murphy, Jim

2) The journal of William Thomas Emerson: a Revolutionary War patriot

Author

Denenberg, Barry

3) The journal of Ben Uchida, citizen #13559, Mirror Lake Internment Camp

Author

Denenberg, Barry

Series

My name is America

Pub. Date

1999

Physical Desc

156 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Description

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Twelve-year-old Ben Uchida keeps a journal of his experiences as a prisoner in a Japanese internment camp in Mirror Lake, California, during World War II.

4) The journal of Joshua Loper: a Black cowboy

Author

Myers, Walter Dean

5) The journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: a World War II soldier

Author

Myers, Walter Dean

6) The journal of Sean Sullivan: a Transcontinental Railroad worker

Author

Durbin, William

7) The journal of Augustus Pelletier: the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Author

Lasky, Kathryn

8) The journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce, a pilgrim boy

Author

Rinaldi, Ann

Series

My name is America

Pub. Date

2000

Physical Desc

155 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.

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A fourteen-year-old indentured servant keeps a journal of his experiences on the Mayflower and during the building of Plymouth Plantation in 1620 and 1621.

9) The journal of Otto Peltonen: a Finnish immigrant

Author

Durbin, William

10) The journal of Wong Ming-Chung: a Chinese miner, California, 1852

Author

Yep, Laurence

11) The journal of Biddy Owens: the Negro leagues

Author

Myers, Walter Dean

Series

My name is America

Pub. Date

2001

Physical Desc

141 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.

Description

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Teenager Biddy Owens' 1948 journal about working for the Birmingham Black Barons includes the games and the players, racism the team faces from New Orleans to Chicago, and his family's resistance to his becoming a professional baseball player. Includes a historical note about the evolution of the Negro Leagues.

12) The journal of Douglas Allen Deeds: the Donner Party expedition

Author

Philbrick, W. R.

13) The journal of Jesse Smoke: a Cherokee boy

Author

Bruchac, Joseph

Series

My name is America

Pub. Date

2001

Physical Desc

203 p. : ill., col. map ; 20 cm.

Description

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Jesse Smoke, a sixteen-year-old Cherokee, begins a journal in 1837 to record stories of his people and their difficulties as they face removal along the Trail of Tears. Includes a historical note giving details of the removal.

14) The journal of C.J. Jackson: a Dust Bowl migrant

Author

Durbin, William

Series

My name is America

Pub. Date

2002

Physical Desc

169 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.

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Thirteen-year-old C.J. records in a journal the conditions of the Dust Bowl that cause the Jackson family to leave their farm in Oklahoma and make the difficult journey to California, where they find a harsh life as migrant workers.

15) The journal of Jedediah Barstow, an emigrant on the Oregon Trail

Author

Levine, Ellen

Series

My name is America

Pub. Date

2002

Physical Desc

172 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.

Description

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In his 1845 diary, thirteen-year-old orphan Jedediah describes his wagon train journey to Oregon, in which he confronts rivers and sandy plains, bears and rattlesnakes, and the challenges of living with his fellow travelers. Includes historical notes.

16) The journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty, United States Marine Corps

Author

White, Ellen Emerson

17) The journal of Brian Doyle: a greenhorn on an Alaskan whaling ship

Author

Murphy, Jim

18) The journal of Finn Reardon: a newsie

Author

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell

19) The journal of Rufus Rowe: a witness to the Battle of Fredricksburg

Author

Hite, Sid

Series

My name is America

Pub. Date

2003

Physical Desc

132 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.

Description

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In 1862, sixteen-year-old Rufus Rowe runs away from home and settles in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he documents in his journal the battle he watches unfold there.