My name is America
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The journal of James Edmond Pease: a Civil War Union soldier
Author
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A seventeen-year-old soldier from central Virginia records his experiences in a journal as his regiment takes part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and subsequent battles to liberate France.
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The journal of Otto Peltonen: a Finnish immigrant
Author
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Teenager Biddy Owens' 1948 journal about working for the Birmingham Black Barons includes the games and the players, racism the team faces from New Orleans to Chicago, and his family's resistance to his becoming a professional baseball player. Includes a historical note about the evolution of the Negro Leagues.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Douglas Deeds, a fifteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his travels by wagon train as a member of the ill-fated Donner Party, which became stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846-47.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Jesse Smoke, a sixteen-year-old Cherokee, begins a journal in 1837 to record stories of his people and their difficulties as they face removal along the Trail of Tears. Includes a historical note giving details of the removal.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old C.J. records in a journal the conditions of the Dust Bowl that cause the Jackson family to leave their farm in Oklahoma and make the difficult journey to California, where they find a harsh life as migrant workers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In his 1845 diary, thirteen-year-old orphan Jedediah describes his wagon train journey to Oregon, in which he confronts rivers and sandy plains, bears and rattlesnakes, and the challenges of living with his fellow travelers. Includes historical notes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
An eighteen-year-old Marine records in his journal his experiences in Vietnam during the siege of Khe Sanh, 1967-1968. Includes a history of Vietnam, war timeline, glossary, and related military information.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1874, Brian Doyle records in his diary how he ran away from his home in San Francisco, joined the crew of a whaling ship, and endured storms, hostile shipmates, and being stranded in the Arctic.
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Finn Reardon, a thirteen-year-old Irish-American newspaper carrier who hopes to be a journalist someday, keeps a journal of his experiences living in New York City in 1899. Includes historical notes.