diaries

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The journal of Scott Pendleton Collins

a World War II soldier
1999
A seventeen-year-old soldier from central Virginia records his experiences in a journal as his regiment takes part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and subsequent battles to liberate France.

Strider

1991
In a series of diary entries, Leigh tells how he comes to terms with his parents' divorce, acquires joint custody of an abandoned dog, and joins the track team at school.

Arthur and the lost diary

1998
Arthur finds Sue Ellen's lost diary and is tempted to read it before returning it.

Polar, the Titanic bear

1994
This true story, told through the eyes of a young boy's toy bear, describes an American family's travels in the Edwardian era, culminating with their voyage on the famous Titanic.

Christmas after all

the Great Depression diary of Minnie Swift
2001
A fictional journal in which eleven-year-old Minnie Swift tells how her family dealt with the difficult times during the Depression and how the arrival of an orphan from Texas changed their lives in Indianapolis just before Christmas 1932.

Voyage on the great Titanic

the diary of Margaret Ann Brady
1998
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 winter of red snow

the Revolutionary War diary of Abigail Jane Stewart
1996
Eleven-year-old Abigail presents a diary account of life in Valley Forge from December 1777 to July 1778 as General Washington prepares his troops to fight the British.

The journal of James Edmond Pease

a Civil War Union soldier
1998
James Edmond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his experiences and those of "G" Company which he joined as a volunteer in the Union Army during the Civil War.

Across the wide and lonesome prairie

the Oregon Trail diary of Hattie Campbell
1997
In her diary, thirteen-year-old Hattie chronicles her family's arduous 1847 journey from Missouri to Oregon on the Oregon Trail.

Land of the buffalo bones

the diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, an English girl in Minnesota
2003
Fourteen-year-old Polly Rodgers keeps a diary of her 1873 journey from England to Minnesota as part of a colony of eighty people seeking religious freedom, and of their first year struggling to make a life there, led by her father, a Baptist minister.

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