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Series

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.

2) The winter of red snow: the Revolutionary War diary of Abigail Jane Stewart

Author

Gregory, Kristiana

Series

Physical Desc

173 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.

Language

English

Description

Eleven-year-old Abigail presents a diary account of life in Valley Forge from December 1777 to July 1778 as General Washington prepares his troops to fight the British.

3) Across the wide and lonesome prairie: the Oregon Trail diary of Hattie Campbell

Author

Gregory, Kristiana

Series

Physical Desc

168 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Language

English

Description

In her diary, thirteen-year-old Hattie chronicles her family's arduous 1847 journey from Missouri to Oregon on the Oregon Trail.

4) I thought my soul would rise and fly: the diary of Patsy, a freed girl

Author

Hansen, Joyce

Series

Physical Desc

202 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 22 cm.

Language

English

Description

Twelve-year-old Patsy keeps a diary of the ripe but confusing time following the end of the Civil War and the granting of freedom to former slaves.

5) A picture of Freedom: the diary of Clotee, a slave girl

Author

McKissack, Pat

Series

Physical Desc

192 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.

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.

6) So far from home: the diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish mill girl

Author

Series

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.

7) Standing in the light: the captive diary of Catherine Carey Logan

Author

Osborne, Mary Pope

Series

Physical Desc

184 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.

Language

English

Description

A Quaker girl's diary reflects her experiences growing up in the Delaware River Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by Lenape Indians in 1763.

8) Voyage on the great Titanic: the diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912

Author

White, Ellen Emerson

Series

Physical Desc

197 pages ; 19 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.

9) West to a land of plenty: the diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi

Author

Murphy, Jim

Series

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.

10) A light in the storm: the Civil War diary of Amelia Martin

Author

Hesse, Karen

Series

Physical Desc

169 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Language

English

Description

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.

11) Color me dark: the diary of Nellie Lee Love, the great migration North

Author

McKissack, Pat

Series

Physical Desc

218 pages ; 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.

12) My secret war: the World War II diary of Madeline Beck

Author

Osborne, Mary Pope

Series

Physical Desc

186 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.

Language

English

Description

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.

13) One eye laughing, the other weeping: the diary of Julie Weiss

Author

Series

Physical Desc

250 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Language

English

Description

During the Nazi persecution of the Jews in Austria, twelve-year-old Julie escapes to America to live with her relatives in New York City.

14) Christmas after all: the great depression diary of Minnie Swift

Author

Lasky, Kathryn

Series

Physical Desc

185 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Language

English

Description

In her fictionalized journal, eleven-year-old Minnie Swift recounts how her family dealt with the difficult times during the Depression and how the arrival of an orphan from Texas changed their lives in Indianapolis just before Christmas 1932.

15) Early Sunday morning: the Pearl Harbor diary of Amber Billows

Author

Series

Physical Desc

156 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Language

English

Description

In her diary, twelve-year-old Amber describes moving to Hawaii in 1941 and experiencing the horror of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

16) Seeds of hope: the gold rush diary of Susanna Fairchild

Author

Gregory, Kristiana

Series

Physical Desc

182 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.

Language

English

Description

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.

17) Mirror, mirror on the wall: the diary of Bess Brennan

Author

Series

Physical Desc

139 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Language

English

Description

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.

18) Survival in the storm: the dust bowl diary of Grace Edwards

Author

Janke, Katelan

Series

Physical Desc

186 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.

Language

English

Description

A twelve-year-old girl keeps a journal of her family's and friends' difficult experiences in the Texas panhandle, part of the "Dust Bowl," during the Great Depression. Includes a historical note about life in America in 1935.

19) A time for courage: the suffragette diary of Kathleen Bowen

Author

Lasky, Kathryn

Series

Physical Desc

217 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Language

English

Description

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.

20) When Christmas comes again: the World War I diary of Simone Spencer

Author

Levine, Beth Seidel

Series

Physical Desc

172 pages : some illustrations ; 20 cm.

Language

English

Description