Reading Selections

DEAR AMERICA SERIES
Colonial Period 1600s-1700s
A Journey to the New World
Standing in the Light
Look to the Hills
American Revolution 1770s
The Winter of Red Snow
Love Thy Neighbor
Westward Expansion 1800s
A Line in the Sand
Valley of the Moon
Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie
All the Stars in the Sky
Seeds of Hope
The Great Railroad Race
My Face to the Wind
West to the Land of Plenty
Land of the Buffalo Bones
Civil War/Slavery 1850s-1870s
A Picture of Freedom
A Light in the Storm
When Will This Cruel War Be Over?
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly
19th Century Immigration 1800s
So Far from Home
A Coal Miner’s Bride
Native American Experience late 1800s
The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow
My Heart is on the Ground
20th Century Immigration 1900s
Dreams in the Golden Country
Early 20th Century 1900-1930s
Voyage on the Great Titanic
Color Me Dark
World War I 1910s-1920s
A Time for Courage
When Christmas Comes Again
The Depression 1930s
Christmas After All
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
Survival in the Storm
World War II 1930s-1940s
One Eye Laughing The Other Weeping
My Secret War
Early Sunday Morning

MY AMERICA SERIES
Colonial Period 1600s-1700s
Our Strange New Land, Elizabeth’s Diary
The Starving Time, Elizabeth’s Diary
Season of Promise, Elizabeth’s Diary
American Revolution 1770s
Five Smooth Stones, Hope’s Diary
We are Patriots, Hope’s Diary
When Freedom Comes, Hope’s Diary
Westward Expansion 1800s
Westward to Home, Joshua’s Diary
A Perfect Place, Joshua’s Diary
The Wild Year, Joshua’s Diary
As Far As I Can See, Meg's Prairie Diary
For This Land, Meg's Prairie Diary
A Fine Start, Meg's Prairie Diary
Underground Railroad 1850s-1860s
Freedom’s Wings, Corey’s Diary
Flying Free, Corey’s Diary
Message in the Sky, Corey’s Diary
Civil War/Slavery 1850s-1870s
My Brother’s Keeper, Virginia’s Diary
After the Rain, Virginia’s Diary
A Time to Dance, Virginia’s Diary
20th Century Immigration 1900s
Hope in My Heart, Sofia's Diary
Home At Last, Sofia's Diary
An American Spring, Sofia's Diary

MY NAME IS AMERICA SERIES
Colonial Period 1600s-1700s
The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce
American Revolution 1770s
The Journal of William Thomas Emerson
Westward Expansion 1800s
The Journal of Augustus Pelletier
The Journal of Jedediah Barstow
The Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds
The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung
The Journal of Sean Sullivan
The Journal of Joshua Loper
The Journal of Brian Doyle
Civil War/Slavery 1850s-1870s
The Journal of Rufus Rowe
The Journal of Edmond Pease
Native American Experience late 1800s
The Journal of Jesse Smoke
20th Century Immigration 1900s
The Journal of Finn Reardon
The Journal of Otto Peltonen
The Depression 1930s
The Journal of C.J. Jackson
World War II 1930s-1940s
The Journal of Ben Uchida
The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins
Civil Rights 1940s-1950s
The Journal of Biddy Owens
Vietnam War 1960s-1970s
The Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty

MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS
Civil Rights
Warrior's Don't Cry
The Depression 1930’s
Grapes of Wrath
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry
Out of the Dust
Civil War/Slavery
Bull Run
Freedom Crossing
Soldier's Heart
Night John
World War II/Holocaust
If I Should Die Before I Wake
Number the Stars
The Wave