Dear America Books
Explore the best Dear America books, a captivating series of historical fiction diaries that bring American history to life for young readers. Discover beloved titles and stories now!
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A Journey to the New World
by Kathryn Lasky
Twelve-year-old Mem presents a diary account of the trip she and her family made on the Mayflower in 1620 and their first year in the New World.
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Standing in the Light
by Mary Pope Osborne
A strong-willed Quaker girl's diary reflects her experiences growing up in the Delaware River Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by Lenape Indians in 1763.
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Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie
by Kristiana Gregory
In her diary, thirteen-year-old Hattie chronicles her family's arduous 1847 journey from Missouri to Oregon on the Oregon Trail.
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Dear America: All the Stars in the Sky: The Santa Fe Trail Diary of Florrie Mack Ryder
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Seeds of Hope
by Kristiana Gregory
A diary account of fourteen-year-old Susanna Fairchild's life in 1849, when her father succumbs to gold fever on the way to establish his medical practice in Oregon after losing his wife and money on their steamship journey from New York. Includes a historical note.
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A Light in the Storm
by Karen Hesse
Captures the emotions of a young Union girl who struggles to make sense of her shattered world as she lives in a state of harsh division during the first year of the Civil War. 120,000 first printing.
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When Will this Cruel War be Over?
by Barry Denenberg
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.
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The Great Railroad Race
by Kristiana Gregory
As the daughter of a newspaper reporter, fourteen-year-old Libby keeps a diary account of the exciting events surrounding her during the building of the Transcontinental Railroad in the West in 1868.
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Land of the Buffalo Bones
by Marion Dane Bauer
Fourteen-year-old Polly Rodgers keeps a diary of her 1873 journey from England to Minnesota as part of a colony of eighty people seeking religious freedom, and of their first year struggling to make a life there, led by her father, a Baptist minister.
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My Heart is on the Ground
by Ann Rinaldi
In the diary account of her life at a government-run Pennsylvania boarding school in 1880, a twelve-year-old Sioux Indian girl reveals a great need to find a way to help her people.
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Dear America: West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi
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A Coal Miner's Bride
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Sent from Poland to Pennsylvania to be married to a coal miner, thirteen-year-old Anetka lives a totally new life in a harsh environment she doesn't understand, in this latest addition to the Dear America series.
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Dreams in the Golden Country
by Kathryn Lasky
Zipporah Feldman, a 12-year-old Jewish immigrant from Russia, uses diary entries to chronicle her family's activities as they acclimate to life on New York City's Lower East Side.
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Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912 (Dear America)
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Color Me Dark
by Pat McKissack
Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind.
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Dear America: Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1932
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Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards (Dear America)
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