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10 best books like A Christmas to Remember (Jean Little): An Ocean Apart: The Gold Mountain Diary of Chin Mei-Ling, Turned Away: The World War II Diary of Devorah Bernstein, Torn Apart: The Internment Diary of Mary Kobayashi, A Season for Miracles, Whispers of War: The War of 1812 Diary of Susanna Merritt, Not a Nickel to Spare: The Great Depression Diary of Sally Cohen, Banished from Our Home: The Acadian Diary of Angélique Richard, A Desperate Road to Freedom: The Underground Railroad Diary of Julia May Jackson, Prisoners in the Promised Land: The Ukrainian Internment Diary of Anya Soloniuk, Where the River Takes Me: The Hudson's Bay Company Diary of Jenna Sinclair

An Ocean Apart: The Gold Mountain Diary of Chin Mei-Ling
AuthorGillian Chan
ISBN0779113535
Mei-ling lives with her father in Vancouver, but her mother and baby brother are still in China. Mei-ling works after school, and her father holds down several jobs, in a frantic effort to come up with the head tax that will allow her mother and brother to come to Canada. They must have that money before...
Turned Away: The World War II Diary of Devorah Bernstein
AuthorCarol Matas
ISBN0439969468
This dramatic story tells of 11-year-old Devorah's efforts to help her cousin and pen pal Sarah emigrate from Paris before the Nazis deport the Jews to internment camps. Devorah learns that 5,000 Jewish children in France have visas to leave the country, but the Canadian government will not let them...
Torn Apart: The Internment Diary of Mary Kobayashi
AuthorSusan Aihoshi
ISBN0439946603
The harsh conditions of an internment camp become a reality for a young Japanese-Canadian girl.

It is 1941 and Mary Kobayashi, a Canadian-born Japanese girl enjoys her life in Vancouver. She likes school, she likes her friends, and she yearns above all else to own a bicycle. Although WWII is...
A Season for Miracles
AuthorSarah Ellis
ISBN0439952700
I love this series because these fabulous authors each use their own unique styles of writing to really breath life into the characters!The Dear Canada series also puts historic events in our nations History into a perspective that is easy for everyone to understand and actually enjoy learning about!...
Whispers of War: The War of 1812 Diary of Susanna Merritt
AuthorKit Pearson
ISBN0439988365
This book is one of the Dear Canada series, which are historical novels, written in diary format, about fictional girls during different periods of Canadian history.

Susanna Merritt is a young girl living near Niagara, Canada in 1812, the youngest in a large family. Susanna fears for her family...
Not a Nickel to Spare: The Great Depression Diary of Sally Cohen
AuthorPerry Nodelman
ISBN0439961300
Not a Nickel to Spare is about Sally Cohen, a young girl who faces the difficulties of depression. But on top of worrying about having enough money to survive, Sally also faces the difficulties of being a jewish. With her cousin, Benny, Sally has many exciting adventures that help Sally face her fears...
Banished from Our Home: The Acadian Diary of Angélique Richard
AuthorSharon Stewart
ISBN0439974216
My gut reaction is a visceral "Gaaah! I pity the poor child who was given this to read."

*But I must be more tempered, more fair, says my inside voice.*

So -- here it is, my tempered, trying-to-be-fair-without-choking-on-it voice.

This book is from the Dear Canada series,...
A Desperate Road to Freedom: The Underground Railroad Diary of Julia May Jackson
AuthorKarleen Bradford
ISBN0545996198
Julia May and her family have done the unthinkable. They have fled from their life of slavery on a tobacco plantation in Virginia and are making their way north, on foot, where they have heard that slaves can be free. The journey takes them through swamps, travelling by night and hiding by day. The diary...
Prisoners in the Promised Land: The Ukrainian Internment Diary of Anya Soloniuk
AuthorMarsha Forchuk Skrypuch
ISBN0439956927
Reason for Reading: I am reading this whole series. I picked this particular volume because I am participating in a WWI reading challenge.

I've only read a couple of Skrypuch's books so far, but she has become one of my favourite Canadian juvenile authors. Mostly, her historical fiction revolves...
Where the River Takes Me: The Hudson's Bay Company Diary of Jenna Sinclair
AuthorJulie Lawson
Orphan Jenna Sinclair lives with her prim aunt Grace, who always finds fault with her high spirits and tendency to break the rules. She finds a kindred spirit in her Grandmother, one of the Home Guard Cree who lives near Fort Edmonton and with her friend Suzanne, but soon she moves south to Fort Colvile....
A Trail of Broken Dreams: The Gold Rush Diary of Harriet Palmer
AuthorBarbara Haworth-Attard
ISBN0439974054
Twelve year old Harriet Palmer's mother has just died after a difficult child-birth. With Mr. Palmer being out in the gold fields, Harriet and her little brother and sister have no where to go. Except the general store owners who they owe debt to. They aren't even glad to take them in, despite Mrs. Owen...
A Rebel's Daughter: The 1837 Rebellion Diary of Arabella Stevenson
AuthorJanet Lunn
ISBN0439969670
Young Arabella Stevenson has lived a comfortable upper class life in the growing city of Toronto, Upper Canada. But lately her barrister (lawyer) father has been talking with "suspicious" characters who want to reform the colony's heavily English-immigrant influenced government. Finally, there...
Blood Upon Our Land :The North West Resistance Diary Of Josephine Bouvier
AuthorMaxine Trottier
ISBN0545999057
A young girl watches as the Métis life she knows is threatened by conflict and the men in her family are called to action by Louis Riel, the charismatic leader of the North West Resistance. Tension grips Batoche, Saskatchewan in 1885. Many Métis moved here after the 1870 Riel Rebellion in Manitoba left...
A Sea of Sorrows: The Typhus Epidemic Diary of Johanna Leary
AuthorNorah McClintock
In the midst of the Irish famine, Johanna flees one disaster — only to land in another.

After a massive potato famine strikes Ireland, thirteen-year-old Johanna Leary flees to Canada with her family.

But typhus and other illnesses plague the "coffin ships," so named for the staggering...
Hoping for Home: Stories of Arrival
AuthorLillian Boraks-Nemetz
ISBN0545986974
In these eleven original stories, characters bravely face the challenges of settling into a new life. In this wonderful new short story anthology, eleven of Canada's top children's authors contribute stories of immigration, displacement and change, exploring the frustration and uncertainty...
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