Dear America

Mem, 12, keeps a diary of the trip she and her family made on the Mayflower in 1620 and their first year in the New World.

Twelve-year-old Abigail,along with her mother and siblings, faces many hardships after her father joins General Washington's Continental Army and they become camp followers.

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.