| Author | : Joyce Hansen |
| Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0545280907 |
Twelve-year-old Patsy keeps a diary of the ripe but confusing time following the end of the Civil War and the granting of freedom to former slaves.
| Author | : Pat McKissack |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : African American girls |
| ISBN | : 9780545265553 |
"Belmont Plantation, Virginia, 1859"--Cover.
| Author | : Pat McKissack |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780590511599 |
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 | : Joyce Hansen |
| Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2011-08-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0545389003 |
Joyce Hansen's Coretta Scott King Honor Book I THOUGHT MY SOUL WOULD RISE AND FLY is now back in print with a gorgeous new package!Patsy, an orphaned slave with a bad leg and a quiet nature, is considered slow by the Davis family. But Patsy's smart -- smart enough to learn to read and write on the sly. After the Civil War ends and slavery is abolished, Patsy believes Master Davis's promise to pay the former house slaves and to educate the slave children. But when the master ignores his promise to establish a school and the Freedmen's Bureau cannot provide a teacher, Patsy steps in to teach the students to read and write.Patsy's diary is filled with courage, conviction, and hope as she strives toward her freedom.
| Author | : Ellen Emerson White |
| Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 155 |
| Release | : 2011-08-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0545415012 |
One of the most popular Dear America diaries of all time, Ellen Emerson White's bestselling VOYAGE ON THE GREAT TITANIC is now back in print with a gorgeous new package!Five years ago, Margaret Ann Brady's older brother left her in the care of an orphanage and immigrated to America. When the orphanage receives an unusual request from an American woman looking for a traveling companion, Margaret's teachers agree that she is the perfect candidate to accompany Mrs. Carstairs on the TITANIC, so that once Margaret arrives in New York she will be free to join her brother in Boston. But the TITANIC is destined for tragedy, and Margaret's journey is thrown into a frozen nightmare when the ship collides with an iceberg.
| Author | : Carol Lynch Williams |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 2010-08-05 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1847389392 |
Thirteen-year-old Kyra has grown up in an isolated community without questioning the fact that her father has three wives and she has twenty brothers and sisters. That is, without questioning them much - if you don't count her secret visits to the Mobile Library on Wheels to read forbidden books, or her meetings with Joshua, the boy she hopes to choose for herself instead of having a man chosen for her. But when the Prophet decrees that she must marry her sixty-year-old uncle - who already has six wives - Kyra must make a desperate choice in the face of violence and her own fears of losing her family forever.
| Author | : Kathryn Lasky |
| Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 133 |
| Release | : 2011-08-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0545414962 |
Newbery Honor author Kathryn Lasky's A JOURNEY TO THE NEW WORLD is now back in print with a gorgeous new package!Twelve-year-old Remember Patience Whipple ("Mem" for short) has just arrived in the New World with her parents after a grueling 65-day journey on the MAYFLOWER. Mem has an irrepressible spirit, and leaps headfirst into life in her new home. Despite harsh conditions, Mem is fearless. She helps to care for the sick and wants more than anything to meet and befriend a Native American.
| Author | : Christina Dodd |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 452 |
| Release | : 2009-10-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0061739901 |
Lady Saura of Roget lives a lonely life of servitude—her fortune controlled by her cruel, unscrupulous stepfather. Yet it is she who has been called upon to brighten the days of Sir William of Miraval, a proud and noble knight who once swore to live or perish by the sword . . . until his world was engulfed in agonizing darkness. Summoned to Sir William's castle, the raven-haired innocent is soon overcome by desire and love for the magnificent, golden warrior who has quickly laid siege to her heart. But there is grave danger awaiting them both just beyond the castle walls . . . and a dear and deadly price to be paid for surrendering to a fiery, all-consuming love.
| Author | : John Hill Wheeler |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 590 |
| Release | : 1884 |
| Genre | : North Carolina |
| ISBN | : |
