Dear America

In the diary account of her life at a government-run Pennsylvania boarding school in 1880, a twelve-year-old Sioux Indian girl reveals a great need to find a way to help her people.

A Thirteen year old Navajo Indian girl records the heart felt account of the Long Walk.

The diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo girl , who lived in New Mexico in 1864.

A twelve-year-old keeps a journal of her family's and friends' difficult experience in the Texas Panhandle, part of the "Dust Bowl, " during the Great Depression. Includes a historical note about life in America in 1935.

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.

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.