Dear America series

In 1609, Elizabeth Barber's family sails from Plymouth, England, to Jamestown, Virginia, establishing America's first permanent English colony. She and her family face many hardships, but they are determined to make a home in their new land.

When her mother and sister fall ill, Meg and her brother Preston are sent to live with relatives on the prairie to avoid the cholera epidemic in St. Louis.

Book 3 of Lizzie's diary about the Colony of Jamestown.

During the days leading up to the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, Virginia Dickens begins keeping a diary.

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.

In 1858, nine-year-old Corey Birdsong and his family, fugitive slaves from Kentucky, build a new life in Amherstburg, Canada, while still hoping to help those they left behind.

A nine-year-old slave keeps a diary of his journey to freedom along the Underground Railroad in 1857.

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.