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Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Language
English
Description
When Boowie reads the diary that his grandmother sends him, he learns of her childhood in World War II England when American and British soldiers practiced for D-Day's invasion in the area of her home, and about her beloved cat, Adolphus Tip, and the cat's namesake.
83) After the rain
Author
Series
Virginia's diary volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
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.
84) Home at last
Author
Series
Sofia's immigrant diary volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Princess diaries volume 8
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Princess Mia's junior year in high school begins with a difficult course load, a crazy student council race, Grandmere's search for temporary lodging, and the news that her boyfriend is moving to Japan for a year.
88) Princess Mia
Author
Series
Princess diaries volume v 9
Publisher
Harper Teen
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Princess Mia, struggling to come to terms with her recent breakup with Michael and prepare for an important speaking engagement at a gala for Domina Rei, finds solace and guidance in the diary of a teenage princess for Genovia, and discovers a secret that may change her country's history forever.
89) Conspiracy
Author
Series
Lady Grace mysteries from the daybookes of Lady Grace Cavendish volume the third
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lady Grace Cavendish, favorite maid of honor of Elizabeth I, investigates a conspiracy when the Queen narrowly escapes a series of "accidents."
90) Deception
Author
Publisher
Delacorte
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lady Grace Cavendish, maid of honor to Queen Elizabeth I, describes in her diary her efforts to discover who is counterfeiting the new English silver coin.
91) Assassin
Author
Series
Lady Grace mysteries from the daybookes of Lady Grace Cavendish volume the first
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lady Grace Cavendish, favorite maid of honor of Elizabeth I, must solve a murder mystery and clear the name of her betrothed.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
In 1901, fourteen-year-old Mable Riley dreams of being a writer and having adventures while stuck in Perth County, Ontario, assisting her sister in teaching school and secretly becoming friends with a neighbor who holds scandalous opinions on women's rights.
96) Betrayal
Author
Series
Lady Grace mysteries from the daybookes of Lady Grace Cavendish volume the second
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Lady Grace Cavendish, Elizabeth I's youngest maid of honor, finds herself in the midst of a battle at sea while posing as a boy aboard the ship of Francis Drake, where she and Masou stowed away in hopes of finding the kidnapped Lady Sarah.
100) Land of the buffalo bones: the diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, an English girl in Minnesota
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
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.
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