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Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996
Lexile measure
1050L
Physical Desc
156 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Dear America volume 5
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
170 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
188 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
201 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the journal she receives for her twelfth birthday in 1835, Lucinda Lawrence describes the hardships her family and other residents of the "Texas colonies" endure when they decide to face the Mexicans in a fight for their freedom.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1998
Lexile measure
1010L
Physical Desc
197 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Dear America volume 8
Pub. Date
1998
Lexile measure
1070L
Physical Desc
204 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
While traveling in 1883 with her Italian American family (including a meddlesome little sister) and other immigrant pioneers to a utopian community in Idaho, fourteen-year-old Teresa keeps a diary of her experiences along the way.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Lexile measure
970L
Physical Desc
203 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 railroad in the West in 1868.
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
1000L
Physical Desc
158 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1871 Joshua Loper, a sixteen-year-old black cowboy, records in his journal his experiences while making his first cattle drive under an unsympathetic trail boss.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Lexile measure
800L
Physical Desc
219 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A diary account of thirteen-year-old Anetka's life in Poland in 1896, immigration to America, marriage to a coal miner, widowhood, and happiness in finally finding her true love.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
218 pages : illustrations, map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.