Season of Promise

9 best books like Season of Promise (Patricia Hermes): 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, 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,

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...

Hope In My Heart: Sofia's Immigrant Diary

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...

Freedom's Wings

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...

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...