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My name is America
Dear America book

Series

Publisher

Scholastic Inc

Physical Desc

156 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.

Language

English

Description

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.

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

Author

Series

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

2003.

Edition

Reinforced library edition.

Physical Desc

156 pages : illustrations, map ; 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.

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

Author

Series

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

1997.

Edition

First edition.

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.

4) Elisabeth: the princess bride

Author

Series

Royal diaries

Publisher

Scholastic Inc

Pub. Date

[2003]

Edition

First edition.

Physical Desc

151 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Language

English

Description

The diary of Princess Elisabeth, written in 1853-1854, describing her engagement and marriage to her cousin Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria. Includes historical notes concerning her life as Empress.

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

Author

Series

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

2002.

Edition

First edition.

Physical Desc

139 pages : illustrations, map ; 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.

6) The journal of William Thomas Emerson: a Revolutionary War patriot

Author

My name is America
Dear America

Series

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

1998.

Edition

First edition.

Physical Desc

156 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.

Language

English

Description

William, a twelve-year-old orphan, writes of his experiences in pre-Revolutionary War Boston where he joins the cause of the patriots who are opposed to the British rule.

7) When will this cruel war be over?: the diary of Emma Simpson

Author

Series

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

[2011]

Edition

[2011] edition.

Physical Desc

170 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 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.

8) Shadow life: a portrait of Anne Frank and her family

Author

Publisher

Scholastic Press

Pub. Date

[2005]

Edition

First edition.

Physical Desc

xv, 224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Language

English

9) When will this cruel war be over?: the Civil War diary of Emma Simpson

Author

Series

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

[1996]

Physical Desc

156 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.

Language

English

Description