My America
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Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In her diary, a ten-year-old girl writes about her family's experiences living in Washington, D. C., in 1864-5, during which time the Civil War comes to an end and President Lincoln is assassinated. Includes historical notes.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In her diary, a ten-year-old girl writes about her family's experiences living in Washington, D.C., in 1864-65, during which time the Civil War comes to an end and President Lincoln is assassinated. Includes historical notes.
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Series
Elizabeth's Jamestown Colony diary volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Nine-year-old Elizabeth keeps a journal of her experiences in the New World as she encounters Indians, suffers hunger and the death of friends, and helps her father build their first home.
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Series
Joshua's Oregon Trail diary volume 2
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Late in 1848, nine-year-old Joshua McCullough starts a second journal, this time recording events in Willamette Valley, Oregon Territory, as his family and others they met on the trail begin to get settled.
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Series
Elizabeth's Jamestown Colony diary volume 3
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In 1611, ten-year-old Elizabeth continues a journal of her experiences living in Jamestown, as her brother Caleb rejoins the family, a new strict governor comes to the colony, and her father considers remarriage.
12) We are patriots
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Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In her diary, ten-year-old Hope writes about her life as a patriot in 1777 Philadelphia, as the Redcoats try to take over her city and defeat the Continental Army. Includes historical notes.
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Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Meg continues to write in her diary about her family's adventures in the Kansas prairie in 1856 as they try to return to a more normal life after surviving a cholera epidemic, separation, and invading Border Ruffians.
15) Home at last
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In 1903, ten-year-old Sofia and her family begin their life in America in Boston, where her father works in a grocery, her mother sells pasta, and she goes to school while trying to stay in touch with her old friend Maureen. Includes historical notes.
16)
Hope in my heart
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19) The wild year
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Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In this book, Joshua's diary comes to an end with stories of life in Oregon, his sister lost in the woods, and Joshua starting school.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In her diary, eleven-year-old Hope writes about her life in 1778 Philadelphia as British Redcoats take over her family's house, her father fights with the Continental Army at Valley Forge, and she gains a new friend and new baby sister. Includes an historical note.