Dear America
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Newbery Honor author Kathryn Lasky's A JOURNEY TO THE NEW WORLD is now back in print with a gorgeous new package!Twelve-year-old Remember Patience Whipple ("Mem" for short) has just arrived in the New World with her parents after a grueling 65-day journey on the MAYFLOWER. Mem has an irrepressible spirit, and leaps headfirst into life in her new home. Despite harsh conditions, Mem is fearless. She helps to care for the sick and wants more than anything...
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©1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 3
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156, [2] pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
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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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c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
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192 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
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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.
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©1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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188 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 20 cm.
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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.
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c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
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201 p. : ill ; 19 cm.
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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.
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1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 5
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197 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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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.
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1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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204 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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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.
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The girl who chased away sorrow: the diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo girl
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1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
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203, [3] pages : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
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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.
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1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
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169 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
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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.
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1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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205 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
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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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c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
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219 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
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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.
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One eye laughing, the other weeping: the diary of Julie Weiss
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Newbery Honor author Kathryn Lasky's CHRISTMAS AFTER ALL is back in print with a gorgeous new package!To twelve-year-old Minnie Swift, Christmas is not going to be the time of bounty she's used to. It is 1932 -- the middle of the Great Depression -- and jobs are scarce and Papa seems more worried each day. But when their orphaned cousin comes to live with them, the Swifts are quick to rearrange the beds and make room for her. Minnie, thrilled to have...
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Early Sunday morning: the Pearl Harbor diary of Amber Billows
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My face to the wind: the diary of Sarah Jane Price, a prairie teacher
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Seeds of hope: the gold rush diary of Susanna Fairchild
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2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
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218 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
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The 1845-1846 diary of thirteen-year-old Maria, servant to the wealthy Spanish family which took her in when her Indian mother died. Includes a historical note about the settlement and early history of California.
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Mirror, mirror on the wall: the diary of Bess Brennan
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Survival in the storm: the dust bowl diary of Grace Edwards
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2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
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217 p. ; 20 cm.
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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.
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When Christmas comes again: the World War I diary of Simone Spencer
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Where have all the flowers gone?: the diary of Molly Mackenzie Flaherty
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All the stars in the sky: the Santa Fe trail diary of Florrie Mack Ryder
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Land of the buffalo bones: the diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, an English girl in Minnesota
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Love thy neighbor: the Tory diary of Prudence Emerson
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Critically acclaimed author Deborah Hopkinson's HEAR MY SORROW is back with a beautiful new cover!
Fourteen-year-old Angela Denoto and her family have arrived in New York City from their village in Italy to find themselves settled in a small tenement apartment on the Lower East Side. When her father is no longer able to work as a hod carrier, Angela must leave school and find a job in a shirtwaist factory. Despite being disappointed that she had...
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2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
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203 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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Twelve-year-old Deliverance Trembley writes in her diary about the fears and doubts that arise during the 1692 witch hunt and trials in Salem Village, Massachusetts, especially when her pious friend, Goody Corey, is condemned as a witch.
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Look to the hills: the diary of Lozette Moreau, a French slave girl
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2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
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313 p. : ill., maps, ; 20 cm.
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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.
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2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
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244 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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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.
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2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
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216 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
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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.
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2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
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324 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
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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.
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Critically acclaimed and award-winning author Kristiana Gregory's ACROSS THE WIDE AND LONESOME PRAIRIE is now back in print with a gorgeous new package!After the death of her two sisters, thirteen-year-old Hattie and her family make for a fresh start. They sell their farm in Missouri and journey across the Oregon Trail toward Oregon City. At first the adventure is exciting, but as the days, weeks, and months pass, Hattie realizes what a dangerous...
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2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
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293 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
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Angeline Reddy turns to friends for help when her father, the best lawyer in their California gold mining town, disappears, but her efforts are complicated by her mother's sudden illness, her uncle's arrest for the murder of her father, the appearance of a mysterious ghost, and a dangerous gang of vigilantes.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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From National Book Award-winning author Judy Blundell, a thrilling account of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906.
When Minnie Bonner's father disappears after losing the Bonners' Philadelphia tavern, the wealthy gentleman Edward Sump, led by his avaricious wife, offers Minnie a chance to work as a lady's maid to support her family. The Sumps have grand plans, grander than the city of Philadelphia can offer, however, and decide to move to San Francisco...
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2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
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245 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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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.