The Best Books From Dear America
Discover the best Dear America books, from Land of the Buffalo Bones to Voyage on the Great Titanic. Explore gripping historical fiction and nonfiction diaries by Marion Dane Bauer, Kristiana Gregory, and Mary Pope Osborne that bring American history to life for young readers.
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The Great Railroad Race
by Kristiana Gregory
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 Transcontinental Railroad in the West in 1868.
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Seeds of Hope
by Kristiana Gregory
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.
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Dear America: All the Stars in the Sky: The Santa Fe Trail Diary of Florrie Mack Ryder
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Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards (Dear America)
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Standing in the Light
by Mary Pope Osborne
A strong-willed Quaker girl's diary reflects her experiences growing up in the Delaware River Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by Lenape Indians in 1763.
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Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912 (Dear America)
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A Time For Courage: The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen (Dear America)
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Land of the Buffalo Bones
by Marion Dane Bauer
Fourteen-year-old Polly Rodgers keeps a diary of her 1873 journey from England to Minnesota as part of a colony of eighty people seeking religious freedom, and of their first year struggling to make a life there, led by her father, a Baptist minister.