My America: We Are Patriots: Hope's Revolutionary War Diary, Book Two
10 best books like My America: We Are Patriots: Hope's Revolutionary War Diary, Book Two (Kristiana Gregory): Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912, Hope In My Heart: Sofia's Immigrant Diary, Freedom's Wings, My Brother's Keeper, As Far As I Can See, Season of Promise, Journal Of William Thomas Emerson, A Revolutionary War Patriot, Our Strange New Land, After the Rain: Virginia's Civil War Diary, The Starving Time
Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912
| Author | Ellen Emerson White |
| ISBN | 0590962736 |
Of the Titanic story, I always find it most difficult to get through reading or hearing about the crew who sacrificed their lives. What amazes me most is that the band selflessly played through the entire ordeal without rushing to the lifeboats and trying to save themselves. If there was one thing I could...
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0439449626 |
In Book One of Sofia's Ellis Island Diary, renowned author Kathryn Lasky tells the story of Sofia Monari's arrival in America from Italy.
When Sofia and her family arrive in Ellis Island after a long and difficult journey from Italy, a cruel twist of fate separates Sofia from her parents and...
| Author | Sharon Dennis Wyeth |
As part of the relaunch of the My America series, Sharon Dennis Wyeth introduces readers to Corey Birdsong, a slave boy in antebellum Kentucky. This is the story of his family's attempt to escape.
Corey Birdsong is a lively young boy in search of freedom in the same country that made an economy...
| Author | Mary Pope Osborne |
| ISBN | 0439369037 |
Mary Pope Osborne's book, part of the relaunch of the My America series, tells the story of Ginny , a young girl who keeps a journal during the Civil War's Battle of Gettysburg.
Virginia Dickens has promised to keep a journal for her older brother Jed. And Ginny finds plenty to write about: Pennsylvania...
| Author | Kate McMullan |
| ISBN | 0439425174 |
The story takes place in 1856, where Meg and her parents live in St. Louis. Her mother takes ill, and her father worries that it might be a cholera plague, so he has Meg and her young brother taken out west to friends in Kansas. This forms one of the themes of the book. The other theme is slavery, where Meg and...
| Author | Patricia Hermes |
| ISBN | 0606282076 |
In her third and final journal, Elizabeth and her brother, now reunited, grieve the death of their mother, while dramatic changes take place in Jamestown, under the strict leadership of Lord Delaware.
Elizabeth, who is finally reunited with her twin brother Caleb, continues to grieve for...
| Author | Barry Denenberg |
| ISBN | 0590313509 |
Barry Denenberg’s purpose of writing The Journal of William Thomas Emerson is to show what the experiences leading up to the Revolutionary war were like through a young Boston colonists perspective. Throughout the story, William Thomas Emerson a young man who was taken in by Mrs.Thompson and Mr.Wilson...
| Author | Patricia Hermes |
| ISBN | 0439368987 |
In May 1607, three ships sailed up the James River in Virginia. In the riverbank marshes, they made land and hung the flag England¹s flag establishing the first permanent English colony in Jamestown Virginia. In 1609, the first ship carrying women and children arrived. After 71 days at sea, nine-year-old...
After the Rain: Virginia's Civil War Diary
| Author | Mary Pope Osborne |
| ISBN | 0439369045 |
Part of the My America relaunch, in Ms. Osborne's sequel to My Brother's Keeper, Ginny moves to Washington, D.C. where she must face changing times, marked by the assassination of President Lincoln.
In the final months of the Civil War, Virginia nad her family move to Washington, D.C. where...
| Author | Patricia Hermes |
| ISBN | 0439369029 |
In Pat Hermes' sequel to Our Strange New Land, Elizabeth faces harsher times as she records the colony's daily struggle for survival. The My America series will be relaunched with new covers.
The story of the feisty, determined Lizzie of Pat Hermes' Our Strange New Land continues in this installment...
A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620
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...
