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1) When will this cruel war be over?: the Civil War diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville Virginia, 1864
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The diary of a fictional fourteen-year-old girl living in Virginia, in which she describes the hardships endured by her family and friends during one year of the Civil War.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
Eleven-year-old Abigail presents a diary account of life in Valley Forge from December 1777 to July 1778 as General Washington prepares his troops to fight the British.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
James Edmond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his experiences and those of "G" Company which he joined as a volunteer in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In a series of diary entries, Princess Elizabeth, the eleven-year-old daughter of King Henry VIII, celebrates holidays and birthdays, relives her mother's execution, revels in her studies, and agonizes over her father's health.
5) The journal of Sean Sullivan: a Transcontinental Railroad worker : Nebraska and points west, 1867
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1867, fifteen-year-old Sean experiences both hardships and rewards when he joins his father in working on the building of the Transcontinental Rairoad.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A novel in diary form in which the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II describes the privileged life her family led up until the time of World War I and the tragic events that befell them.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1769, thirteen-year-old Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, begins a journal chronicling her life at the Austrian court and her preparations for her future role as queen of France.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Description
A look at what life might have been like for royal teens of the past, mixing storytelling with historical facts. Includes Cleopatra VII, daughter of the Nile ; Isabel, jewel of Castilla, Spain; and Elizabeth I, red rose of the House of Tudor, England.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2010], c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
In her diary in 1912, thirteen-year-old Margaret Ann describes how she leaves her lonely life in a London orphanage to become a companion to a wealthy American woman, sails on the Titanic, and experiences its sinking.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1955 Hadley, Virginia, twelve-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnson, a tomboy who excels at baseball and at her studies, becomes the first African American student to attend the all-white Prettyman Coburn school, turning her world upside down. Includes historical notes about the period.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In the "wild west" of an 1880s California gold-mining town, Angeline investigates the supposed murder of her father, a famous criminal lawyer, who she and her mother are certain is still alive. Includes historical notes and instructions for making a mask from muslin.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2012], ©2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
In her fictionalized journal, eleven-year-old Minnie Swift recounts how her family dealt with the difficult times during the Depression and how an orphan from Texas changed their lives in Indianapolis just before Christmas 1932.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
It is 1906, and when her family is cheated out of their tavern, fourteen-year-old Minnie Bonner is forced to become a maid to the Sump family, who are moving to San Francisco--three weeks before the great earthquake.
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