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Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Teenager Biddy Owens' 1948 journal about working for the Birmingham Black Barons includes the games and the players, racism the team faces from New Orleans to Chicago, and his family's resistance to his becoming a professional baseball player. Includes a historical note about the evolution of the Negro Leagues.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
In 1813, a fourteen-year-old British navy lieutenant records in his logbook a perilous journey as he and his men attempt to return a group of slaves to the Jamaican plantation from which pirates stole them; pirates who are determined to reclaim their booty.
Author
Series
Virginia's diary volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
In 1863, as the Civil War approaches her quiet town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, nine-year-old Virginia records in a journal the horrible things she witnesses before, during, and after the Battle of Gettysburg.
187) So far from home
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
IWith the potatoe famine devasting her home land in Ireland, Mary Driscoll must leave her parents to seek out a better life in America. Mary finds work in a mill, where working conditions are dreadful. When a friend is accused of murder, Mary must decide to face her fears and sacrifice everything to save him.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
In 1968 Massachusetts, after her brother Patrick goes to fight in Vietnam, fifteen-year-old Molly records in her diary how she misses her brother, volunteers at a Veterans' Administration Hospital, and tries to make sense of the war in Vietnam and the tumultuous events in the United States. Includes historical notes.
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
In 1763, Caty, a Quaker girl, is kidnapped by a Lenape tribe bent on avenging attacks by white settlers. A warrior befriends Caty and teaches her to respect Lenape traditions. Now Caty wonders if she will be able to return to her old life.
191) Lilac blossom time
Author
Series
Dora's diary volume 2
Publisher
Herald Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Dora, an Amish schoolmarm, chronicles in her diary the adventures and changes she experiences during her twenty-first year, including her work as a hired girl for a large family in Minnesota, her service as a companion for a wealthy, elderly woman in Pennsylvania, and her courtship with Matthew.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Presents the fictional journals of eighty-five-year-old Logan Mountstuart in which he tells of his boyhood in Montevideo, Uruguay, the publication of his first book, his association with some of history's most famous authors, his World War II service, and other adventures into old age.
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Nikki Maxwell writes and sketches in her diary about her struggle to be popular at her exclusive new private school, and about giving up on being part of the elite group, before figuring out a way to be herself.
194) Feud
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
When one of her fellow Ladies-in-Waiting becomes mysteriously ill, Lady Grace Cavendish suspects the cause is poison and sets out to learn who is responsible. There is much excitement at Court as the famous painter Levina Teerlinc arrives to paint the Queen's portrait. The Maids of Honor are recruited to help entertain the Queen during the sittings, and to pose for the painter while the Queen is busy. They love being in the studio but have to beware...
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