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Dear America
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Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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A Journey to the New World:
The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620
"We are journeying to the New World. It is the Mayflower that be getting us there, slowly. She measures ninety feet in length and twenty-five feet in breadth at her broadest point. She is a strong ship but a plodding one, as she creaks her way across this vast gray Atlantic sea."
A Pilgrim girl makes the exciting yet dangerous journey on the Mayflower to a new world, filled with the excitement of meeting Native peoples there as well as the trauma of a sickness that would take her mother's life.
Hardcover: 176 Pages
An NCSS/CBC Bitabke Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
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Dreams in the Golden Country:
The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl, New York City, 1903
"I told Miriam last night in bed my secret dreams of wanting to become an actress. She squeezed my hand. It was a squeeze that seemed to say we both have secret dreams, mine the theater and hers love. Then she said, 'What is it about this country that makes one dream such big dreams?' I yawned sleepily and said, yes, I knew what she meant, and look at Tovah with her union dreams. There is something in the air here in America that does this to people."
New dreams and old traditions both clash and complement each other when a Jewish girl and her family emigrate from Russia to America.
Hardcover: 192 Pages
An NCSS/CBC Bitabke Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
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Christmas After All:
The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift. Indianapolis, IN, 1932
"This is going to be an odd Christmas, no doubt about it. Instead of sugar plums and stockings stuffed with goodies and stacks of presents under the tree — A Time of Bounty, I am thinking of this as The Time of Dwindling."
At the age of twelve, Minnie Swift is living through one of the toughest times in America's history, The Great Depression. She keeps a detailed diary over the span of one Christmas month. Reflecting the sadness— but also optimism—that characterized the time, this is an intimate portrait of a midwestern family's days and nights, ups and downs, triumphs and losses. It is the story of one family's persevering spirit—the Christmas Spirit.
Hardcover: 185 Pages
An NCSS/CBC Bitabke Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
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A Time For Courage:
The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen, Washington D.C., 1917
"Mother says we are having "government by embarassement." She says that the real crime was not obstructing traffic but embarrassing a president. They say that Wilson was furious with those signs when the Russian diplomats drove through the gates. It is a very odd notion but I think she is right."
As the fight for women’s suffrage heats up, Kathleen "Kat" Bowen gets to participate as her mother, her sister, and many others close to her organize and act to win the right to vote.
Hardcover: 217 Pages
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