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Books in Dear America Diary Series series

  • Dear America Diary Series

    Kathryn Lasky Barry Denenberg, Kristiana Gregory, Sherry Garland Joyce Hensen, Jim Murphy, Mary P. Osborne

    Hardcover (Scholastic (1996-1998), March 15, 1997)
    These fascinating fictitious female diaries help readers understand the background and circumstances of historical events in America. Books include: (1) When Will This Cruel War Be Over? The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville Virginia 1864; (2) The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge Pennsylvania 1777; (3) A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower 1620; (4) I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff South Carolina 1865; (5) So Far From Home: The Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell Massachusetts 1847; (6) West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi, New York to Idaho Territory 1883; (7) Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl, New York City 1903; (8) Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley Pennsylvania 1763; (9) A Line in the Sand: The Alamo Diary of Lucinda Lawrence, Gonzales Texas 1836.
  • Dear America Diary Series

    Barry Denenberg & Kristiana Gregory, Kathryn Lasky & Patricia McKissick, Joyce Hansen& Ellen E. White

    Hardcover (Scholastic (1996-1999), March 15, 1999)
    These fascinating fictitious diaries help readers understand the background and circumstances of historical events. Books include: (1) When Will This Cruel War Be Over? The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson; (2) The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart; (3) A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple; (4) Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell ; (5) A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl; (6) I Thought My Soul Would rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl; (7) So Far From Home: The Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl; (11) Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady; (12) The Great Railroad Race: The Diary of Libby West.
  • Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic 1912

    Ellen Emerson White

    Hardcover (Scholastic Inc., Sept. 1, 1998)
    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.
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  • Dear America Diary Series

    M. Osborne E. White, B. Denenberg, P. McKissack J. Murphy, K. Gregory

    Hardcover (Scholastic (1997-2002), March 15, 1999)
    These fascinating fictitious diaries help readers understand the background and circumstances of historical events. Books include: (1) Where Have All the Flowers Gone? The Diary of Molly Mackenzie, Boston Massachusetts 1968; (2) One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss, Vienna Austria to New York 1938; (3) My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck, Long Island New York 1941; (4) Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, RMS Titanic 1912; (5) Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley Pennsylvania 1763; (6) West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi, New York to Idaho Territory 1883; (7) Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell, 1847;(8) So Far from Home: The Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell Massachusetts 1847; (9) A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation Virginia 1859.
  • Dear America Diary Series

    Mary Pope Osborne Kathryn Lasky, Barry Denenberg, Joyce Hansen Kristiana Gregory

    Hardcover (Scholastic (1996-1998, 2001), March 15, 2000)
    These fascinating fictitious diaries help readers understand the background and circumstances of historical events. Books include: (1) A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple; (2) Standing in the Light: The Captive diary of Catharine Carey Logan; (3) The Journal of William Thomas Emerson, A Revolutionary War Patriot; (4) Seeds of Hope: The Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild; (5) When Will This Cruel War Be Over? The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson; (6) I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl.
  • Dear America Diary Series

    Osborne Lasky, Denenberg, McKissack, Gregory

    Hardcover (Scholastic (1996-1998), March 15, 1998)
    These fascinating fictitious diaries help readers understand the background and circumstances of historical events. Books include: (1) Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl, New York City 1903; (2) When Will This Cruel War Be Over? The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville Virginia 1864; (3) A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation Virginia 1859; (4) The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge Pennsylvania 1777; (5) Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley Pennsylvania 1763; (6) A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower 1620.
  • Dear America Diary Series

    Osborne Denenberg, White, Hansen, Gregory

    Hardcover (Scholastic (1997, 1998, 2001, 2010), March 15, 2001)
    These fascinating fictitious diaries help readers understand the background and circumstances of historical events. Books include: (1) Early Sunday Morning: The Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii 1941; (2) Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, London England 1912; (3) I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff South Carolina 1865; (4) So Far From Home: The Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell Massachusetts 1847; (5) The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge Pennsylvania 1777; (6) Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley Pennsylvania 1763.
  • Dear America Set of City Tossed Broken; Coal Miner's Bride; West to Land of Plenty...

    Jim Murphy, Ellen Emerson White, Judy Blundell, Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Kristiana Gregory

    Hardcover (Scholastic, Feb. 26, 2013)
    These fascinating fictictious diaries help readers understand the background and circumstances of historical events. Books included: (1) A City Tossed and Broken, Diary of Minnie Bonner, San Francisco, California, 1906; (2) Coal Miner's Bride, the Diary of Anetka Kaminska, Lattimer Pennsylvania 1896; (3) Voyage on the Great Titanic, the Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, RMS Titanic 1912; (4) West to a Land of Plenty, the Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi, New York to Idaho Territory 1883; (5) The Winter of Red Snow, the Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge Pennsylvania 1777.
  • Dear Canada & Dear America Series

    Ellis Stewart, Mantas, Denenberg Osborne, White

    Hardcover (Scholastic (1998, 2001-2004), March 15, 2008)
    These fascinating fictitious diaries help readers understand the background and circumstances of historical events in Canada and America. Books include:(1) Banished from Our Home: The Acadian Diary of Angelique Richard, Grand-Pre, Acadia, 1755; (2) Footsteps in the Snow: The Red River Diary of Isobel Scott, Rupert's Land, 1815; (3) Days of Toil and Tears: The Child Labour Diary of Flora Rutherford, Almonte, Ontario, 1887; (4) Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catherine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763; (5) Voyage on the Great Titanic: the Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, RMS Titanic, 1912; (6) Early Sunday Morning: The Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii, 1941.