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Dear AmericaWhite, Ellen Emerson.
Summary: In 1968 Massachusetts, after her brother Patrick goes to fight in Vietnam, fifteen-year-old Molly records in her diary how she misses her brother, volunteers at a Veterans' Administration Hospital, and tries to make sense of the war in Vietnam and the tumultuous events in the United States. Includes historical notes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WHILasky, Kathryn.
Summary: A diary account of thirteen-year-old Kathleen Bowen's life in Washington, D.C. in 1917, as she juggles concerns about the national battle for women's suffrage, the war in Europe, and her own school work and family. Includes a historical note.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC LASHesse, Karen.
Summary: In 1860 and 1861, while working in her father's lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware, fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War is beginning to devastate her divided state.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC HESOsborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Madeline's diaries for 1941 and 1942 reveal her experiences living on Long Island during World War II while her father is away in the Navy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2000
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: Y DA 20Larson, Kirby.
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Piper Davis records in her diary her experiences beginning in December 1941 when her brother joins the Navy, the United States goes to war, she attempts to document her life through photography, and her father--the pastor for a Japanese Baptist Church in Seattle--follows his congregants to an Idaho internment camp, taking her along with him. Includes historical notes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2010
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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 Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC LEVCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Stacks, Call number: Y DADenenberg, Barry.
Summary: In her diary, twelve-year-old Amber describes moving to Hawaii in 1941 and experiencing the horror of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: Y DATurner, 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: 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 GREMcKissack, Pat
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