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Dear America Dear America ; 1 Dear Canada My America My name is America Revolutionary War .1Levine, Beth Seidel.
Summary: Teenage Simone's diaries for 1917 and 1918 reveal her experiences as a carefree member of New York society, then as a "Hello girl," a volunteer switchboard operator for the Army Signal Corps in France.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2002
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: Y DABartoletti, Susan Campbell.
Summary: It is 1871 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and fourteen-year-old Pringle Rose, still grieving from the death of her parents, takes her brother Gideon, who has Down syndrome, escapes from her uncle and aunt, taking a train to Chicago--but disaster seems to follow her there.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y DA BARCushman, Karen.
Summary: The thirteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CUS1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CUS
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CUSMurphy, Jim
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MURCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: Y DADenenberg, Barry.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1996
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y DA 3Hansen, Joyce.
Summary: Patsy, an orphaned slave who has taught herself to read and write, teaches and educates former slaves, old and young, after the end of the Civil War and the abolishment of slavery. Patsy's diary is filled with courage, conviction and hope as she strives towards freedom.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC HANTurner, Ann Warren.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TURGregory, Kristiana.
Summary: In her diary, a young girl writes about her life and the events surrounding the beginning of the American Revolution in Philadelphia in 1776.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GREDenenberg, Barry.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2002
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Summary: Brought up in France as the African slave companion of a nobleman's daughter, thirteen-year-old Zettie records the events of 1763, when she and her mistress escape to the New World where they are inadvertently drawn into the hostilities of the ongoing French and Indian War and, eventually, find a new direction to their lives.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MCKPinkney, Andrea Davis.
Summary: In 1955 Hadley, Virginia, twelve-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnson, a tomboy who excels at baseball and at her studies, becomes the first African American student to attend the all-white Prettyman Coburn school, turning her world upside down. Includes historical notes about the period.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC PINLittle, Jean
Summary: In 1916, in Uxbridge, Ontario, twelve-year-old Eliza, a Presbyterian minister's daughter, chronicles her family's experiences after her two brothers leave for Europe to fight in the war.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Canada 2003
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Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC GREThomson, Melissa
Summary: Keena and her second-grade class go on a field trip to the United States Capitol where they meet a congressman and Keena makes a big impression, which she documents in her new journal.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC THOBlundell, Judy.
Summary: It is 1906, and when her family is cheated out of their tavern, fourteen-year-old Minnie Bonner is forced to become a maid to the Sump family, who are moving to San Francisco--three weeks before the great earthquake.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC BLUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y DA BLUArango, Andrea Beatriz
Summary: Twelve-year-old Iveliz is trying to manage her mental health and advocate for the help and understanding she deserves, but in the meantime her new friend calls her crazy and her abuela Mimi dismisses the therapy and medicine Iveliz needs to feel like herself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ARACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ARALowry, Lois.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2011
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Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC BARDenenberg, Barry.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Ben Uchida keeps a journal of his experiences as a prisoner in a Japanese internment camp in Mirror Lake, California, during World War II.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 1999