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Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
960L
Physical Desc
201 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In the journal she receives for her twelfth birthday in 1835, Lucinda Lawrence describes the hardships her family and other residents of the "Texas colonies" endure when they decide to face the Mexicans in a fight for their freedom.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
185 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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Description
In her fictionalized journal, eleven-year-old Minnie Swift recounts 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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
187 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In her fictionalized journal, eleven-year-old Minnie Swift recounts 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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
990L
Physical Desc
189 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old girl keeps a journal of her family's and friends' difficult experiences in the Texas panhandle, part of the "Dust Bowl," during the Great Depression. Includes a historical note about life in America in 1935.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
324 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm .
Language
English
Description
In 1955 Hadley, Virginia, twelve-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnson, a tomboy who excels at baseball and at her studies, becomes the first African American student to attend the all-white Prettyman Coburn school, turning her world upside down. Includes historical notes about the period.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
217 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A diary account of thirteen-year-old Kathleen Bowen's life in Washington, D.C. in 1917, as she juggles concerns about the national battle for women's suffrage, the war in Europe, and her own school work and family. Includes a historical note.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
156 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Audiobooks
Pub. Date
℗2011
Physical Desc
6 audio discs (6 hr., 37 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
In 1955 Hadley, Virginia, twelve-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnson, a tomboy who excels at baseball and at her studies, becomes the first African American student to attend the all-white Prettyman Coburn school, turning her world upside down.
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