Hoping for Home: Stories of Arrival (Dear Canada)
By: Lillian Boraks-Nemetz
3.75
Format: 242 pages, Hardcover
In these eleven original stories, characters bravely face the challenges of settling into a new lif…
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1. A City Tossed and Broken: The Diary of Minnie Bonner, San Francisco, California, 1906 (Dear America)
By: Judy Blundell
3.78
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Award-winning author Judy Blundell, a thrilling account of the San Francisco Ear… read more
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2. Weetamoo: Heart of the Pocassets, Massachusetts - Rhode Island, 1653
By: Patricia Clark Smith
3.67
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
It is 1654 in New England, native land of Algonquin tribes, among them the Pocasset, Wampanoag, and… read more
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3. Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile - 57 B.C.
By: Josephine Bailey , Kristiana Gregory
3.90
Format: 4 pages, Audio CD
Established "Dear America" author Kristiana Gregory kicks off "The Royal Diaries" with the captivat… read more
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"Princess," he said, spreading his arms in a shrug, "how does such a little thing like you get such a big temper?" I held up my hand to shield my eyes from the sun. "Marc Antony," I said, "how does su…"-Josephine Bailey, Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile - 57 B.C.
4. A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861
By: Karen Hesse
0.00
Format: 798 pages, Hardcover
Thursday, February 28, 1861 P. Cloudy. Wind N.W. Fresh Mr.Lincoln has arrived at last in Washington… read more
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5. A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620
By: Kathryn Lasky
4.12
Format: 207 pages,
From the diary of twelve-year-old Mem, short for Remember, comes the story of her family's trip on … read more
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6. When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Virginia, 1864
By: Barry Denenberg
4.27
Format: 24 pages,
A Confederate girl records the hardships of Southern life as the Civil War rages at her doorstep an… read more
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7. The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo Girl
By: Ann Turner
3.47
Format: 156 pages, Hardcover
The narrator describes her experiences as her Navajo tribe is forced to relocate by the U.S. Army i… read more
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8. I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865
By: Joyce Hansen
4.88
Format: 242 pages, Hardcover
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9. Look to the Hills: The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl
By: Patricia C. McKissack
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In acclaimed author Patricia McKissack's latest addition to the Dear America line, Lozette, a Frenc… read more
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10. Prisoner of Dieppe: World War II, Alistair Morrison, Occupied France, 1942
By: Hugh Brewster
4.00
Format: 412 pages, Hardcover
I Am Canada Adventure. Duty. Danger. Fear. Canada's past comes alive through the eyes of young men … read more
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11. A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska, Lattimer, Pennsylvania, 1896
By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
3.54
Format: None pages,
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12. The Marrow Thieves
By: Cherie Dimaline
3.97
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dre… read more
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"When we heal our land, we are healed also."-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
"I did have the longest hair of any of the boys... I braided it myself each morning, to keep it out of the way and to remind myself of things I couldn’t quite remember but that, nevertheless, I knew t…"-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
"We go to the schools and they leach the dreams from where our ancestors hid them, in the honeycombs of slushy marrow buried in our bones. And us? Well, we join our ancestors, hoping we left enough dr…"-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
"And I understood that as long as there are dreamers left, there will never be want for a dream. And I understood just what we would do for each other, just what we would do for the ebb and pull of th…"-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
13. Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North, Chicago, Illinois, 1919
By: Patricia C. McKissack
3.65
Format: 304 pages,
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14. My Heart is on the Ground: the Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl, Carlisle Indian School, Pennsylvania, 1880
By: Ann Rinaldi
3.62
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Beginning in broken English, Nannie tells of her incredibly difficult first year at the school, inc… read more
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15. Restart
By: Gordon Korman
2.50
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
Chase's memory just went out the window. Chase doesn't remember falling off the roof. He doesn't re… read more
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16. One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss
By: Barry Denenberg
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
This special Dear Ameirca edition is actually two stories in a single volume. In part one of a two-… read more
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17. Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor, England, 1544 (Royal Diaries #1)
By: Kathryn Lasky
3.00
Format: None pages,
November 10, 1544. I have been living with this constant fear of exile now for two days. So far I h… read more
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18. A Time For Courage: The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen
By: Kathryn Lasky
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
As the fight for women's suffrage heats up, Kathleen"Kat" Bowen gets to participate as her mother a… read more
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19. The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew, #1)
By: Carolyn Keene , Sara Paretsky , Russell H. Tandy
4.04
Format: 431 pages, Hardcover
This is a facsimile reprint of the first ever Nancy Drew book, published 1930. Nancy Drew's keen mi… read more
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20. Lady of Palenque : Flower of Bacal, Mesoamerica, A.D. 749
By: Anna Kirwan
3.76
Format: 336 pages,
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21. West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi
By: Jim Murphy
3.10
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The first humorous book in the Dear America series follows an Italian girl's immigrant family as th… read more
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22. A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859
By: Patricia C. McKissack
4.04
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Day or two later Freedom is one of the first words I teached myself to write. Down in the Quarters … read more
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23. Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba, Angola, Africa, 1595 (Royal Diaries #6)
By: Patricia C. McKissack
3.90
Format: 150 pages, Hardcover
In 1595, Nzingha is the strong, intelligent daughter of the Ngola (leader) of the Mbundu people of … read more
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24. The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1777
By: Kristiana Gregory
4.27
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Eleven-year-old Abigail Jane Stewart records the despair and hope of the difficult winter between 1… read more
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25. Kazunomiya: Prisoner of Heaven, Japan, 1858
By: Kathryn Lasky
3.43
Format: 98 pages,
Princess Kazunomiya, half-sister of the Emperor of Japan, relates in her diary and in poems the con… read more
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26. Across The Wide And Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary Of Hattie Campbell
By: Kristiana Gregory
0.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Now that we're in the North Platte River Valley the air feels dry and thin. My lips are so chapped … read more
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27. Garlic and the Vampire
By: Bree Paulsen
4.30
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A farm-fresh debut graphic novel starring a heroine who is braver than she realizes. Garlic feel… read more
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28. I Survived the Wellington Avalanche, 1910 (I Survived #22)
By: Lauren Tarshis
4.21
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The Wellington snow slide of 1910 was―and still is―the deadliest avalanche in America’s history. La… read more
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29. At Gettysburg or What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle
By: Tillie Pierce Alleman
4.40
Format: 118 pages, Hardcover
The eyewitness account of Tilly Pierce, a 15-year-old girl living in Gettysburg at the time of the … read more
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30. Hoping for Home: Stories of Arrival (Dear Canada)
By: Lillian Boraks-Nemetz
3.75
Format: 242 pages, Hardcover
In these eleven original stories, characters bravely face the challenges of settling into a new lif… read more
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31. An Unexpected Visitor (Dear Canada Christmas Story, #2)
By: Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
4.44
Format: 23 pages, ebook
A holiday treat for fans of the Dear Canada series, and all lovers of historical fiction! Friendshi… read more
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