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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
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Description
In 1769, thirteen-year-old Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, begins a journal chronicling her life at the Austrian court and her preparations for her future role as queen of France. Includes information about the history of the period, a family tree, and contemporary portraits.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
170 p. : ill., maps, music ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the diary account of her journey from Ireland in 1847 and of her work in a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, 14-year-old Mary reveals a great longing for her family.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
293 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the "wild west" of an 1880s California gold-mining town, Angeline investigates the supposed murder of her father, a famous criminal lawyer, who she and her mother are certain is still alive. Includes historical notes and instructions for making a mask from muslin.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Newbery Award-winning author Susan Patron brings her talents to the beloved Dear America series in this exciting story of a girl growing up in the Wild West, in a California gold mining town.Growing up in the wild gold-mining town of Bodie, California, in the 1880s, Angeline Reddy has seen it all -- saloons, brawls, and a whole lot of desperation. When her father, Bodie's greatest lawyer, is declared murdered, Angie knows deep in her heart that he...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
205 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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Description
In the diary account of her life at a government-run Pennsylvania boarding school in 1880, a twelve-year-old Sioux Indian girl reveals a great need to find a way to help her people.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
A novel in diary form in which the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II describes the privileged life her family led up until the time of World War I and the tragic events that befell them.
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
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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
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
880L
Physical Desc
218 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The 1845-1846 diary of thirteen-year-old Maria, servant to the wealthy Spanish family which took her in when her Indian mother died includes a historical note about the settlement and early history of California.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Special edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
300 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 531 A.D., a fifteen-year-old princess of the Hsien tribe in southern China keeps a diary which describes her role as liaison between her own people and the local Chinese colonists, in times of both peace and war.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
169 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1860 and 1861, while working in her father's lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware, fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War is beginning to devastate her divided state.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
186 pages : illustrations, map, genealogical table ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Beginning in 1627, Princess Jahanara, first daughter of Shah Jahan of India's Mogul Dynasty, writes in her diary about political intrigues, weddings, battles, and other experiences of her life. Includes historical notes on Jahanara's later life and on the Mogul Empire.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1070L
Physical Desc
204 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Two-time Newbery Award-winning author Lois Lowry brings a brand-new, beautiful diary to the Dear America series!
Suddenly orphaned by the Spanish flu epidemic in the fall of 1918, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her fourteen-year-old brother, Daniel, of Portland, Maine, are taken by their uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake. Thrust into the Shakers' unfamiliar way of life, Lydia must grapple with a new world that is nothing...
18) Hear My Sorrow (Dear America): The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker, New York City 1909
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Critically acclaimed author Deborah Hopkinson's HEAR MY SORROW is back with a beautiful new cover!
Fourteen-year-old Angela Denoto and her family have arrived in New York City from their village in Italy to find themselves settled in a small tenement apartment on the Lower East Side. When her father is no longer able to work as a hod carrier, Angela must leave school and find a job in a shirtwaist factory. Despite being disappointed that she had...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Newbery Medal winner Karen Hesse's Civil War diary, A LIGHT IN THE STORM, is now back in print with a beautiful new cover!In 1861, Amelia Martin's father is stripped of his post as a ship's captain when he is caught harboring the leader of a slave rebellion. Now he is an assistant lighthouse keeper on Fenwick Island, off the coast of Delaware -- a state wedged between the North and the South, just as Amelia is wedged between her warring parents. Amelia's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
While waiting anxiously for others to choose a husband for her, Isabella, the future Queen of Spain, keeps a diary account of her life as a member of the royal family.
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