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Publisher
Distributed by Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A look at what life might have been like for royal teens of the past, mixing storytelling with historical facts. Includes Cleopatra VII, daughter of the Nile ; Isabel, jewel of Castilla, Spain; and Elizabeth I, red rose of the House of Tudor, England. Each story is an accurate depiction of what life would have been like in that era and as seen through the eyes of teenage girls.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
216 p. : photos ; 20 cm.
Description
After being orphaned during the influenza epidemic of 1918, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her fourteen-year-old brother are taken by their grieving uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake. Includes author's note about the Shakers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
182 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Description
A diary account of fourteen-year-old Susanna Fairchild's life in 1849, when her father succumbs to gold fever on the way to establish his medical practice in Oregon after losing his wife and money on their steamship journey from New York. Includes a historical note.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
203 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
Twelve-year-old Deliverance Trembley writes in her diary about the fears and doubts that arise during the 1692 witch hunt and trials in Salem Village, Massachusetts, especially when her pious friend, Goody Corey, is condemned as a witch.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
185 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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
2012
Physical Desc
p. cm.
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
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
313 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Description
Thirteen-year-old Piper Davis records in her diary her experiences beginning in December 1941 when her brother joins the Navy, the United States goes to war, she attempts to document her life through photography, and her father--the pastor for a Japanese Baptist Church in Seattle--follows his congregants to an Idaho internment camp, taking her along with him. Includes historical notes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
188 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Description
In Greenmarsh, Massachusetts, in 1774, thirteen-year-old Prudence keeps a diary of the troubles she and her family face as Tories surrounded by American patriots at the start of the American Revolution.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
171 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Description
Teenage Simone's diaries for 1917 and 1918 reveal her experiences as a carefree member of New York society, then as a "Hello girl," a volunteer switchboard operator for the Army Signal Corps in France.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
169 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
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.
17) A journey to the New World: the diary of Remember Patience Whipple : Mayflower/Plimoth Colony, 1620
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
173 p. ill., maps 20 cm.
Description
Twelve-year-old Mem presents a diary account of the trip she and her family made on the Mayflower in 1620 and their first year in the New World.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
218 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Description
It is 1906, and when her family is cheated out of their tavern, fourteen-year-old Minnie Bonner is forced to become a maid to the Sump family, who are moving to San Francisco--three weeks before the great earthquake.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
324 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
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.
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