Twelve-year-old Zippy, a Jewish immigrant from Russia, keeps a diary account of the first eighteen months of ther family's life on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1903-1904.
In the diary account of her journey from Ireland in 1847 and of her work in a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, fourteen-year-old Mary reveals a great longing for her family.
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.
the diary of Lydia Amelia Pierce: Portland, Maine, 1918
Lowry, Lois
2011
After being orphaned during the influenza epidemic of 1918, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her fourteen-year-old brother are taken by their grieving uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake. Includes author's note about the Shakers.
the diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish immigrant girl
Lasky, Kathryn
2003
Twelve-year-old Zippy, a Jewish immigrant from Russia, keeps a diary account of the first eighteen months of her family's life on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1903-1904.
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.
Portland, Maine, 1918 : the diary of Lydia Amelia Pierce
Lowry, Lois
2011
After being orphaned during the influenza epidemic of 1918, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her fourteen-year-old brother are taken by their grieving uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake.
