diaries

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diaries

Hannah's journal

the story of an immigrant girl
2002
In the Russian shtetl where she and her family live, Hannah is given a diary for her tenth birthday, and in it she records the dramatic story of her journey to America.

The starving time

2002
Elizabeth Barker continues to write to her "friend," her diary, as disease and lack of food further plague the suffering settlers at Jamestown.

Wingin' it with the Wright brothers

2003
Angus, a little dog with big dreams, wants to do what no dog has done before and fly, but first he must convince his owners, Orville and Wilbur Wright, to build a flying machine for him.

Cross-country with Lewis and Clark

2004
Seaman, a Newfoundland dog, is purchased by Meriwether Lewis in the early 1800s, and soon finds himself a member of the crew on the grand and historic exploration of the Louisiana Purchase.

Victoria

May blossom of Britannia
2001
In 1829, nine-year-old Victoria begins a journal chronicling her life as an English princess. Includes information on the reign, marriage, and family life of Queen Victoria and English civilization during that period.

A perfect place

2002
Late in 1848, nine-year-old Joshua McCullough starts a second journal, this time recording events in Willamette Valley, Oregon Territory, as his family and others they met on the trail begin to get settled.

Kristina

the girl king
2003
Presents the fictionalized diary of the highly unconventional Kristina who became queen of Sweden in the seventeenth century.

Kazunomiya

prisoner of heaven
2004
Princess Kazunomiya, half-sister of the Emperor of Japan, relates in her diary and in poems the confusing events occurring in the Imperial Palace in 1858, including political and romantic intrigue.

Pedro's journal

a voyage with Christopher Columbus, August 3, 1492-February 14, 1493
1992
Written as a diary by Columbus's cabin boy, presents a personal view of the first trip across the Atlantic and his discovery of America.

Mallory and the mystery diary

1989
While helping Stacey move back into her house in Stoneybrook, Mallory and Claudia find an old trunk containing the diary of a girl who lived in Stacey's house in the 1890's.

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