Our Strange New Land

8 best books like Our Strange New Land (Patricia Hermes): My Brother's Keeper, As Far As I Can See, When Freedom Comes, My America: We Are Patriots: Hope's Revolutionary War Diary, Book Two, After the Rain: Virginia's Civil War Diary, Five Smooth Stones : Hope's Diary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1776,, All Four Stars, Stars So Sweet

My Brother's Keeper

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...

As Far As I Can See

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...

When Freedom Comes

Author

Kristiana Gregory

In Hope's third and final diary, by Kristiana Gregory, we meet Hope once again in the middle of the Revolutionary War, as she continues to bravely face the turmoil and violence.
Hope describes the realities of life in Pennsylvania as she is caught up in the midst of the Revolutionary War. Though the...

My America: We Are Patriots: Hope's Revolutionary War Diary, Book Two

Author	Kristiana Gregory
ISBN	0439369061

In Ms. Gregory's sequel to Five Smooth Stones, Hope's brother returns, but she worries about her father's fate and that of Philadelphia. This book is part of the relaunch of the My America series.

In this wonderful second book featuring Hope Penny Potter, the Revolutionary War wages on and...

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...

Five Smooth Stones : Hope's Diary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1776,

Author	Kristiana Gregory
ISBN	0439148278

Title: Five Smooth Stones: Hope’s Diary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1776 (My America series)
Author: Kristiana Gregory
Lexile Level: 640L
Pages: 112p

Recommendations & Comments: Five Smooth Stones relates a year’s worth of diary entries by Hope Potter, a nine-year-old...

All Four Stars

Author	Tara Dairman
ISBN	0399162526

Meet Gladys Gatsby: New York’s toughest restaurant critic. (Just don’t tell anyone that she’s in sixth grade.)
 
Gladys Gatsby has been cooking gourmet dishes since the age of seven, only her fast-food-loving parents have no idea! Now she’s eleven, and after a crème brûlée accident...

Stars So Sweet

Author

Tara Dairman

Joan Bauer meets Ruth Reichl in this charming middle grade foodie series.

As the summer winds down and Gladys Gatsby prepares to start middle school, she is nervous about juggling schoolwork and looming deadlines from her secret job as the New York Standard’s youngest restaurant critic....