books: dear america ...     books:       Dear America65 reviews Kathryn Lasky Scholastic, 2003 Social History Dreams in the Golden Country / 0-590-02973-8 It seems I like all the Dear America books, and this one is no exception. Although I read them for myself, and these books are certainly entertaining and interesting for adults, I try to review them as a parent would, to allow the concerned parent to understand what their child is reading. The Good: Although I was expecting something a little ...             Dear America: Letters from Vietnam13 reviews Pocket, 1987 First hand account of the Vietnam War After the amazing documentary about Vietnam that solely exists of actor voice overs of funny, goofy, anxious and heartbreaking letters home from soldiers at the battlefront in Vietnam, accompanied by graphic footage of the war itself, this book came out. It contains the letters read out in the movie, and additionally has some more background information about the soldiers who wrote the letters. ...             Dear People: Remembering Jonestown9 reviews Heyday Books, 2005 Reminded me of The Killing Fields After having read Deborah Layton's book about Jim Jones, I thought I wanted a somewhat more objective book so I ordered this one. And it didn't disappoint me. Dear People is a compelling presentation of personal stories, official documents and fascinating photos which really gave me the information I was looking for. No drama or ethos, just the plain facts. I've read many books about the Pol Pot ...             A Line in the Sand: the Alamo Diary of Lucinda Lawrence, Gonzales, Texas 1836 (Dear America Series)35 reviews Sherry Garland Scholastic Inc., 1998 Alamo Diary Opened My Mind What a fun read! I was not too enthusiastic about this book but I gave it a try anyway. I'm glad I did! Wall-to-wall action and relevant description abound in this story about a misunderstood historical period. I read this a few years ago and I still remember how good it was. Recently I read another book about the Alamo, and it makes me appriciate how well-written this one is. I don't agree that ...             A Coal Miner's Bride: the Diary of Anetka Kaminska86 reviews Susan Campbell Bartoletti Scholastic Inc., 2000 Great Story A great story about a Polish girl who immigranted to America as a mail ordered bride. It takes a lot of courage to marry someone you have never met. To become an instant wife and mother. The mother part Anetka didn't find out about until she met Stanley. Anetka is full of amazing courage and strength. To go through with the marriage, raising three little girls and becoming the sole responsiblity ...             Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan (Dear America)104 reviews Mary Pope Osborne Scholastic Inc., 1998 A beautiful book with a gripping narrative! I love reading books in diary form and the "Dear America" series of books for younger readers are not only beautifully bound, but each individual story is truly engaging, transporting readers into a bygone era with its entailing adventures. The heroines are typically young girls who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances - and having to display immense courage in trying times. ...             A Time For Courage: The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen, Washington, D.C. 1917 (Dear America Series)19 reviews Kathryn Lasky Scholastic Inc., 2002 One of the Best in the Series A Time for Courage by Kathryn Lasky is one of my all-time favorite books in the Dear America historical fiction series. It is not particularly my favorite era of American history, but it is so well-written and interesting you just fall right in. Kathleen Bowen's mother, aunt, older sister, and best friend's mother are all deeply involved in women's suffrage and equality rights, living in ...             A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859 (Dear America ...62 reviews Patricia C. Mckissack Scholastic, 2003 EXCELLENT RESPONSE THE BOOK WAS RECEIVED IN EXCELLENT CONDITION AS STATED IN THE AD. THE BOOK WAS RECEIVED IN 7 DAYS WHICH WAS QUICKER THAN STATED.             Seeds of Hope: The Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild, California Territory 1849 (Dear America Series)27 reviews Kristiana Gregory Scholastic Inc., 2001 VARTY INTERESTING If your like me loving the past than you should read this book. It's about a girl and her father is a minner so they have to go differnet places so he can find work. At some parts it's hard for her and her sister. I SAY YOU SHOULD READ IT!!!             Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie (Dear America)167 reviews Kristiana Gregory, 1197 Early Americans Faced Many Perils! I purchased this book for my middle school daughter. Boy did it show how hard life was for early Americans traveling across the Oregon Trail. This book is a great way to show today's kids how easy they really have it!             Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker, New York City 1909 (Dear America Series)8 reviews Deborah Hopkinson Scholastic Inc., 2004 Heartbreaking This book was very good. The book lite up with hope at every little, page but is a heartbreaking plot. Please read this book!! It's very good!!             Dear America1 review Bernard Edelman Topeka Bindery, 2002 Dear America These books are very interesting and informative. It is important for people, especially children, to read. They will only do so if the books spark their interest. My daughter has read almost all of the books in this set and loves them. they inspire her to do research and read more books about the past.             Dear Self: A Year In The Life Of A Welfare Mother3 reviews Richelene Mitchell NID Publishers, 2007 Amazing The book Dear Self is an excellent book that everyone should read. It really draws the reader into never wanting to put it down. It appeals to people of every upbringing, age, and culture. The reader will feel as though they have experienced what the very writer has gone through. The emotions of sadness, happiness, and times of struggle have an immense affect on any person who reads this ...             Dear George: Advice and Answers from America's Leading Expert on Everything from a to B (G K Hall Large Print ...2 reviews George Burns G K Hall & Co, 1986 Another Great One This is another of George Burns' greats. All the answers are funny and some have a bit of wisdom to them!             Dear America: A Time for Courage the Diary of Kathleen Bowen2 reviews Kathryn Lasky Scholastic Inc., 2001 A different view of Dear America As War rages on in Europe in 1917 Kathleen "Cat" Bowen knows there is another big fight to finish at home. Her mother, sister, aunt, and many other women around her have all become suffragists to the disapproval of many men including Cat's uncle and her father. Cat and her cousin Alma want to join the picket lines but they are too young. The excitement builds as the picket lines have lasted more ...             For This Land: Meg's Prairie Diary, Book Two (Dear America (Turtleback))2 reviews Kate McMullan Topeka Bindery, 2003 A good new My America book. Nine-year-old Meg Wells and her seven-year-old brother, Preston, were sent away from their St. Louis home in the spring of 1856 during a cholera epidemic, and went to live with relatives in Kansas Territory. But now their parents and their little sister, Grace, have joined them on the prairie, and it looks like their stay in Kansas will be longer then expected. Meg wants to return to St. Louis, ...             Quilt of America: Stories of Americans and Quilts Pieced into a Quilt Called "Dear Bart"4 reviews Carole J. Gariepy Branden Books, 2002 Quilt of America:Stories of Americans and quilts Pieced into This book gave me such an appreciation for the art of quilting. I will never look at a quilt in the same way again. I have never made a quilt before. But, after reading this book I want to. This book explores how woman used quilting as a means of expressing their emotions and as a way of preserving their faminly history and memories. This book is also a wonderful reference book for history buffs. ...             Dreams In The Golden Country (Dear America Series)2 reviews Scholastic, 2000 I love it This was the first Dear America diary I ever read, and I love it more than any of the others except A Picture Of Freedom. Perhaps it is because of what I learned in history as a young child about the Second World War, and the Civil War - but I have always had a special feeling about blacks and Jews. At any rate, "Zippy" and Clottee stole my heart. Dreams do come true.             A Coal Miner's Bride: the Diary of Anetka Kaminska, Latimer, Pennsylvania 1896 (Dear America Series)1 review Susan Campbell Bartoletti Scholastic, 2003 A Coal Miner's Bride This story is about a Polish girl named Anetka who is thirteen years old is immigrating to Lattimer, Pennsylvania. She hopes to find her true love of an American-Polish miner named Stanley who has three little girls. She loved him but, he doesn't love her back. His three girls hated Anetka. But in the end of the middle part, the three girls loved Anetka and Stanley, her husband died. Before ...             Dear Soldier: Heartfelt Letters from America's Children8 reviews Barbara W. Baldwin, Amber Baldwin D'Amico, ..., 2006 just precious! I saw this book in the store, read part of it...and cried..lol. This is one of the most precious things I have ever seen! As an Army wife, and a soon to be teacher, I got this book to use at home and in the classroom. AMAZING!              search for books americans, belmont, california, catharine, children, everything, fairchild, freedom, gonzales, heartfelt, jonestown, kaminska, kathleen, lawrence, leading, lonesome, pennsylvania, picture, plantation, prairie, remembering, shirtwaist, standing, suffragette, susanna, territory, turtleback, vietnam, virginia, washington books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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