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Like the willow tree

a Dear America novel
2020
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.

Dear America A Journey to the New World

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.

My Heart is on the Ground

Twelve year old Mem presents a dairy account of the trip she and her family made on the Mayflower in 1620 and their first year in the new world.

Journal of James Edmond Pease

Dear America - West to a land of plenty

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.

A Journey to the New World: the Diary of Remember Patience Whipple

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.

West to a land of plenty

Standing in the light

A Quaker girl's diary reflects her experiences growing up in the Delaware Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by Lenape Indians in 1763.

The Journal of Augustus Pelletier

A boy's experiences in the wilderness.

Where have all the flowers gone?

In 1968 Massachusetts, after her brother Patrick goes to fight in Vietnam, fifteen-year-old Molly records in her diary how she misses her brother, volunteers at a Verterans' Administration Hospital, and tries to make sense of the Vietnam War and tumultuous events in the United States. Includes historical notes.

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