Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Diary of Bess Brennan
10 best books like Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Diary of Bess Brennan (Barry Denenberg): Jahanara: Princess of Princesses, The Ballad of Lucy Whipple, Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile - 57 B.C., Kazunomiya: Prisoner of Heaven, Japan, 1858, Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor, England, 1544, Escape, A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859, A Family Apart, The Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty: United States Marine Corps, Khe Sanh, Vietnam, 1968, The Journal of James Edmond Pease, A Civil War Union Soldier: Virginia, 1863
Jahanara: Princess of Princesses
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0439223504 |
| Author | Karen Cushman |
| ISBN | 0330398326 |
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...
Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile - 57 B.C.
| Author | Kristiana Gregory |
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...
Kazunomiya: Prisoner of Heaven, Japan, 1858
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0439164850 |
Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor, England, 1544
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0590684841 |
Escape
| Author | Gordon Korman |
| ISBN | 0439164524 |
The book I read is "Island" Book Three: Escape, by Gordon Korman. This book is the last one in Korman's Island series where six kids are shipwrecked on a deserted island and must survive. This is personally my favorite book in the series because of it's genius plot, writing, danger,...
A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859
| Author | Patricia C. McKissack |
| ISBN | 0590259881 |
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...
| Author | Joan Lowery Nixon |
| ISBN | 0440226767 |
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....
| Author | Ellen Emerson White |
| ISBN | 0439148901 |
An agonizing dilemma plagues these brother-sister diarists. He is a Marine stationed in Vietnam. She is...
| Author | Jim Murphy |
ISBN 10: 059043814X
ISBN13: 9780590438148
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Newbery Honor author Jim Murphy portrays the brave and rigorous army life of a 16-year-old Union soldier who has been ordered by his commanding officer...
The Journal Of Joshua Loper, A Black Cowboy
| Author | Walter Dean Myers |
| ISBN | 0590026917 |
This is from the series My Name Is America, A Dear America book. This is the boys version of the historical fiction diaries.
In this one we get to know...
The Journal Of Otto Peltonen, A Finnish Immigrant
| Author | William Durbin |
A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
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...