Dear America

Series

Pub. Date

c1996

Physical Desc

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

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.

3) The winter of red snow: the Revolutionary War diary of Abigail Jane Stewart

Author

Gregory, Kristiana

Series

Pub. Date

c1996

Physical Desc

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

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.

4) I thought my soul would rise and fly: the diary of Patsy, a freed girl

Author

Hansen, Joyce

Series

Pub. Date

1997

Physical Desc

202 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.

Description

Twelve-year-old Patsy keeps a diary of the ripe but confusing time following the end of the Civil War and the granting of freedom to former slaves.

5) A picture of freedom: the diary of Clotee, a slave girl

Author

McKissack, Pat

Series

Pub. Date

c1997

Physical Desc

192 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.

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.

6) So far from home: the diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish mill girl

Author

Series

Pub. Date

1997

Physical Desc

170 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.

Description

In the diary account of her journey from Ireland in 1847 and of her work in a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, fourteen-year-old Mary reveals a great longing for her family.

7) Dreams in the golden country: the diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish immigrant girl

Author

Lasky, Kathryn

Series

Pub. Date

c1998

Physical Desc

188 p. : ill., maps, music ; 20 cm.

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

Author

Garland, Sherry

9) Standing in the light: the captive diary of Catherine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763

Author

Osborne, Mary Pope

Series

Pub. Date

c1998

Physical Desc

184 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

Description

A Quaker girl's diary reflects her experiences growing up in the Delaware River Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by Lenape Indians in 1763.

10) Voyage on the great Titanic: the diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912

Author

White, Ellen Emerson

Series

Pub. Date

1998

Physical Desc

197 p. ; 19 cm.

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

Author

Murphy, Jim

12) The girl who chased away sorrow: the diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo girl

Author

Turner, Ann Warren

Series

Pub. Date

c1999

Physical Desc

200 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.

13) The great railroad race: the diary of Libby West

Author

Gregory, Kristiana

14) A light in the storm: the Civil War diary of Amelia Martin

Author

Hesse, Karen

Series

Pub. Date

1999

Physical Desc

169 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

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.

15) My heart is on the ground: the diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux girl

Author

Rinaldi, Ann

16) A coal miner's bride: the diary of Anetka Kaminska

Author

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell

17) Color me dark: the diary of Nellie Lee Love, the great migration North

Author

McKissack, Pat

18) My secret war: the World War II diary of Madeline Beck

Author

Osborne, Mary Pope

19) One eye laughing, the other weeping: the diary of Julie Weiss

Author

Denenberg, Barry

20) Christmas after all: the Great Depression diary of Minnie Swift

Author

Lasky, Kathryn

21) Early Sunday morning: the Pearl Harbor diary of Amber Billows

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2001

Physical Desc

156 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

Description

In her diary, twelve-year-old Amber describes moving to Hawaii in 1941 and experiencing the horror of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

22) My face to the wind: the diary of Sarah Jane Price, a prairie teacher

Author

Murphy, Jim

Series

Pub. Date

2001

Physical Desc

182 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.

Description

Following her father's death from a disease that swept through her Nebraska town in 1881, teenaged Sarah Jane must find work to support herself and records in her diary her experiences as a young school teacher.

23) Seeds of hope: the gold rush diary of Susanna Fairchild

Author

Gregory, Kristiana

24) Valley of the Moon: the diary of Maria Rosalia de Milagros

Author

Garland, Sherry

25) Mirror, mirror on the wall: the diary of Bess Brennan

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2002

Physical Desc

139 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

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

Author

Janke, Katelan

Series

Pub. Date

2002

Physical Desc

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

Description

A twelve-year-old girl keeps a journal of her family's and friends' difficult experiences in the Texas panhandle, part of the "Dust Bowl," during the Great Depression. Includes a historical note about life in America in 1935.

27) A time for courage: the diary of Kathleen Bowen

Author

Lasky, Kathryn

28) When Christmas comes again: the World War I diary of Simone Spencer

Author

Levine, Beth Seidel

29) Where have all the flowers gone?: the diary of Molly Mackenzie Flaherty

Author

White, Ellen Emerson

Series

Pub. Date

2002

Physical Desc

188 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

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

Author

McDonald, Megan

Series

Pub. Date

2003

Physical Desc

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

Description

A girl's diary records the year 1848 during which she, her brother, mother, and stepfather traveled the Santa Fe trail from Independence, Missouri, to Santa Fe.

31) Land of the buffalo bones: the diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, an English girl in Minnesota

Author

Bauer, Marion Dane

32) Love thy neighbor: the Tory diary of Prudence Emerson

Author

Turner, Ann Warren

Series

Pub. Date

2003

Physical Desc

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

Description

In Greenmarsh, Massachusetts, in 1774, thirteen-year-old Prudence keeps a diary of the troubles she and her family face as Tories surrounded by American patriots at the start of the American Revolution.

33) Hear my sorrow: the diary of Angela Denoto, a shirtwaist worker

Author

Hopkinson, Deborah

Series

Pub. Date

2004

Physical Desc

188 p.

Description

Forced to drop out of school at the age of fourteen to help support her family, Angela, an Italian immigrant, works long hours for low wages in a garment factory, and becomes a participant in the shirtwaist worker strikes of 1909.

34) I walk in dread: the diary of Deliverance Trembley, witness to the Salem witch trials

Author

Fraustino, Lisa Rowe

35) Look to the hills: the diary of Lozette Moreau, a French slave girl

Author

McKissack, Pat

36) The fences between us: the diary of Piper Davis

Author

Larson, Kirby

Series

Pub. Date

2010

Physical Desc

313 p. : photos, map ; 20 cm.

Description

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.

37) Cannons at dawn: the second diary of Abigail Jane Stewart

Author

Gregory, Kristiana

Series

Pub. Date

2011

Physical Desc

244 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.

Description

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.

38) Like the willow tree: the diary of Lydia Amelia Pierce

Author

Lowry, Lois

Series

Pub. Date

2011

Physical Desc

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

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.

39) With the might of angels: the diary of Dawnie Rae Johnson

Author

Pinkney, Andrea Davis

Series

Pub. Date

2011

Physical Desc

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

Description