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Land of the Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, An English Girl in Minnesota

10 best books like Land of the Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, An English Girl in Minnesota (Marion Dane Bauer): Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess, Russia, 1914, The Ballad of Lucy Whipple, Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds: The Donner Party Expedition, 1846, Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile - 57 B.C., Victoria: May Blossom of Britannia, England, 1829, A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859, The Journal of Jesse Smoke : A Cherokee Boy, Trail of Tears, 1838, A Family Apart, Sarah Bishop, Escape from Memory

Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess, Russia, 1914
AuthorCarolyn Meyer
ISBN0439129087
This was the book that launched my love affair with Russia. I read it at age 12, fell in love with the Romanov family and Russia, and promptly went out and bought a Teach Yourself Russian in Three Months set (with accompanying CASSETTES, which lets you know how long ago this was!). Ten years later, I graduated...
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
AuthorKaren Cushman
ISBN0330398326
Dear Gram and Grampop,
Please do not address yours truly as California anymore, California Morning Whipple being a foolish name for a duck much less a girl. I call myself Lucy now. I cannot hate California and be California. I know you will understand.

California doesn't suit Lucy Whipple...
Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds: The Donner Party Expedition, 1846
AuthorRodman Philbrick
ISBN0439216001
Grade level :5.7

Genre : Historical fiction

This My Name is America is part of the Dear America book series. Each part of the series is fashioned to be a fictional journal based off of real historical events and people. Most books from this series I have seen have the characters as children,...
Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile - 57 B.C.
AuthorKristiana Gregory
Disclaimer: The last time I read this book was in middle school, so my review will be spotty and more nostalgic than any review should be. Oh well.

I avidly read the Royal Diaries series during my middle school years. Like most young girls, I was fascinated with princesses and--maybe not so much...
Victoria: May Blossom of Britannia, England, 1829
AuthorAnna Kirwan
ISBN0439215986
In 1829, nine-year-old Victoria begins a journal chronicling her life as an English princess, in a title which includes information on the reign, marriage, and family life of Queen Victoria and English civilization during that period.

29 MAY

...I had to kiss His Majesty's hand....
A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859
AuthorPatricia C. McKissack
ISBN0590259881
Day or two later
Freedom is one of the first words I teached myself to write. Down in the Quarters people pray for freedom - they sing 'bout freedom, but to keep Mas' Henley from knowin' their true feelings, they call freedom "heaven." Everybody's mind is on freedom.
But it is a word that aine never...
The Journal of Jesse Smoke : A Cherokee Boy, Trail of Tears, 1838
AuthorJoseph Bruchac
ISBN0439121973
I'm a bit torn on this one. The story itself was very interesting and features plenty of historical details about the Trail of Tears. It does emphasize the fact that the Cherokee people were treated very unfairly and forced to endure great hardships. However, I think it downplays the bitterness and resentment...
A Family Apart
AuthorJoan Lowery Nixon
ISBN0440226767
FOR LOVERS OF HISTORICAL ADVENTURE, A FAMILY APART IS THE MIDDLE-GRADE ANSWER TO CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE'S NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING ORPHAN TRAIN.
 
Imagine being taken from your home. Imagine your mother is the one who lets it happen.
 
This is the fate that befalls the Kelly children....
Sarah Bishop
AuthorScott O'Dell
ISBN0590446517
Sarah Bishop is a young girl who has no interest in the coming American Revolutionary War. However, this is not how her father and her brother feel. Her father is a Loyalist, siding with the British, and her brother, is a Patriot. Her brother leaves the house, and soon, her father is tarred and feathered....
Escape from Memory
AuthorMargaret Peterson Haddix
ISBN1416903380
While playing around with hypnotism at a party, Kira remembers fleeing a war-torn country with her mother, speaking a language she can't identify. A few days later her mother disappears, and a woman who calls herself Kira's aunt Memory takes Kira to Crythe, a country that doesn't officially exist,...
Journal Of Sean Sullivan, A Transcontinental Railroad Worker
AuthorWilliam Durbin
ISBN0439049946
This is one of my favorite books now. This boy is so likable.The characters were so credible. I mean, Sean melted my heart throughout the whole book. His personality got to me. Well, there were a bunch of things he said that made me want to go and hug him. Though, none of the things he said were petty and sad,...
The Journal Of Otto Peltonen, A Finnish Immigrant
AuthorWilliam Durbin
This is a title in a Scholastic series focusing on various groups of people immigrating to the United States. This title focuses on an extremely hard working Finnish family in Minnesota who live with very little for the goal of eventually purchasing a farm. The father and eventually the son, Otto, work...
A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620
AuthorKathryn Lasky
Journey to the New World (Mayflower) / 0-590-50214-X

Like so many of the Dear America series, this book has wonderful history; the journey across the sea is so real, you can almost feel the narrator's sea sickness. The arrival in the New World is presented realistically: full of hope, joy, and...
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