Books in American Diaries series

Anisett and her family are struggling to make ends meet by providing food for miners in the gold camps when Anisett finds a small chunk of gold, which she keeps a secret, until a sinister stranger discovers it. Original.

Book by Duey, Kathleen

Rosa's dreams of becoming an actress change after spending the day on the set with her make-up artist aunt and seeing the real side of glamorous Hollywood. Original.

When her wounded brother returns from battle, twelve-year-old Mary must get help for him without telling her father, a wealthy Tory, who has disowned his son for joining General Washington's Continental Army

Finding herself in the path of Sherman's march, young Maddie is frightened and unsure about how to get back to her family from whom she has been separated. Original.

Recording her postwar experiences in 1865, Emma of Vicksburg, Mississippi, relates how she and her siblings are orphaned and sent to live among faraway relatives, a journey during which they are surrounded by hostile Yankee soldiers. Original.

Breaking the Sabbath by playing on a snowy hill, Sarah of Puritan Massachusetts records in her 1650 diary her difficult choice between upsetting her father and letting someone else be punished for her actions. Original.

Former slaves emancipated by their owner's will, Evie Peach and her father struggle to make a new home for themselves in the pre-Civil-War St. Louis, in this educational and exciting historical novel. Original.

In Texas in 1886, Ellen finds her desire to be a cattle rancher discouraged by family members who do not think it a proper choice for a girl, but she proves her worth when drought threatens the ranch

With the arrival of the New Year, Nell Dunne is eager to escape the poverty she has always known in Ireland and try her luck in a new land across the sea. Original.

Janey's peaceful homelife in Hawaii is suddenly and forever changed as the bombs begin to drop from the sky on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Original.

While working long hours at the mill, orphan Zellie Blake, who is desperately trying to care for her little brother, unexpectedly finds hope in an unlikely friendship that brings about the start of a new life--one filled with love and family. Original.