Acclaimed author Denenberg's "When Will This Cruel War Be Over?" Impressive [and] illuminating.--"Publishers Weekly."
Lieve AmerikaReeks
Deze serie historische fictieromans voor jonge lezers neemt je mee naar cruciale momenten in de Amerikaanse geschiedenis via persoonlijke dagboekvermeldingen. Elk verhaal ontvouwt zich vanuit het perspectief van een jong meisje dat belangrijke gebeurtenissen en tijdperken meemaakt die de natie hebben gevormd. Het biedt een boeiende manier om uit het verleden te leren door authentieke stemmen en geleefde ervaringen. De collectie biedt een uniek inzicht in de levens van individuen uit verschillende historische periodes.
Aanbevolen leesvolgorde
Voyage on the Great Titanic. The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady
- 192bladzijden
- 7 uur lezen
Read Margaret'saccount of the Titanic disaster.
Partage le journal intime de Clotee, et vis avec elle l'esclavage dans une plantation de coton en Virginie. " Dimanche de Pâques. Liberté. C'est peut-être le premier mot j'ai appris toute seule. Ici, les gens, ils prient pour la liberté, ils chantent sur la liberté, mais pour pas que Maître Henley connaisse leurs vrais sentiments, ils appellent la liberté " cieux ". Tous, ils ont l'esprit fixé sur c'mot : liberté. Mais c'est un mot qui me parle pas, que j'ai encore jamais pu voir. "
A Journey to the New World
- 198bladzijden
- 7 uur lezen
Twelve-year-old Mem presents a diary account of the trip she and her family made on the Mayflower in 1620 and their first year in the New World.
Like the Willow Tree (Revised Edition)
- 224bladzijden
- 8 uur lezen
"With a special, new introduction from the author"--Front cover.
With the Might of Angels
- 336bladzijden
- 12 uur lezen
Bestselling author and Coretta Scott King Award winner Andrea Davis Pinkney presents a moving fictional account of school desegregation in the Civil Rights Era.
In her diary, Margaret Ann describes how she becomes a companion to an American woman, sails on the Titanic, and experiences its sinking.
Slave Girl
- 227bladzijden
- 8 uur lezen
In 1859 twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.
Following her father's death from a disease that swept through her Nebraska town in 1881, teenaged Sarah Jane must find work to support herself and records in her diary her experiences as a young school teacher.
The Fences Between Us
- 313bladzijden
- 11 uur lezen
Newbery Honor author Kirby Larson brings us the first new Dear America diary in years, taking readers through the attack on Pearl Harbor, the start of World War II, and the Japanese incarceration.With this sweeping tale of life on the World War II home front, Kirby Larson brings her incredible talent to the Dear America series. When Pearl Harbor is attacked, America is finally unable to ignore the wars raging in Europe and Asia any longer. And one girl's entire life is about to change when everything she knows is turned on its head. After the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, where her brother, a navy sailor, is stationed, Piper Davis begins chronicling her compelling journey through one of history's most tragic and unforgettable eras.
As the daughter of a newspaper reporter, fourteen-year-old Libby keeps a diary account of the exciting events surrounding her during the building of the Transcontinental Railroad in the West in 1868.
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl
- 202bladzijden
- 8 uur lezen
Twelve-year-old Patsy keeps a diary of the ripe but confusing time following the end of the Civil War and the granting of freedom to former slaves
In 1859 twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.
Titanic
- 176bladzijden
- 7 uur lezen
A fictional account of an orphaned girl's travel onboard the Titanic.
En route vers le nouveau monde : journal d'Esther Whipple 1620-1621.
- 189bladzijden
- 7 uur lezen
Partage le journal d'Esther et vis avec elle son périlleux voyage vers le Nouveau Monde. " Mayflower, 1620. " Terre en vue ! " L'appel de l'homme de vigie déchira l'aube. Nous nous précipitâmes sur le pont. Les marins furent les premiers à l'apercevoir, ligne sombre à peine visible contre l'horizon. Au bout de longues minutes, Hummy et moi commençâmes à la distinguer à notre tour. Ce n'était pas un simple mirage, c'était quelque chose de réel. Certes, le voyage avait duré soixante-cinq interminables journées, mais nous voilà arrivés. Ceci est le Nouveau Monde ; je m'en emplis les yeux pour la première fois. "
Captures the emotions of a young Union girl who struggles to make sense of her shattered world as she lives in a state of harsh division during the first year of the Civil War. 120,000 first printing.
The Winter of Red Snow
- 178bladzijden
- 7 uur lezen
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.
Two-time Newbery Award-winning author Lois Lowry brings a brand-new, beautiful diary to the Dear America series!Suddenly orphaned by the Spanish flu epidemic in the fall of 1918, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her fourteen-year-old brother, Daniel, of Portland, Maine, are taken by their uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake. Thrust into the Shakers' unfamiliar way of life, Lydia must grapple with a new world that is nothing like the one she used to know.Now separated from her beloved brother, for men and women do not mix in this community, Lydia must adjust to many changes. But in time, and with her courageous spirit, she learns to find the joy in life again.
Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie
- 164bladzijden
- 6 uur lezen
In her diary, thirteen-year-old Hattie chronicles her family's arduous 1847 journey from Missouri to Oregon on the Oregon Trail
The first humorous book in the Dear America series follows an Italian girl's immigrant family as they move from New York City to a utopian community in the frontier West.While traveling in 1883 with her Italian American family (including a meddlesome little sister) and other immigrant pioneers to a utopian community in Idaho, fourteen-year-old Teresa keeps a diary of her experiences along the way.
