diaries

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Season of promise

2002
In 1610, ten-year-old Elizabeth continues a journal of her experiences living in Jamestown, as her brother Caleb rejoins the family, a new strict governor comes to the colony, and her father considers remarriage.

Eleanor

crown jewel of Aquitaine
2002
The diary of Eleanor, first daughter of the duke of Aquitaine, from 1136 until 1137, when at age fifteen she becomes queen of France. Includes historical notes on her later life.

Antarctic journal

four months at the bottom of the world
2001
Letters and journal entries from a visit to Antarctica, the windiest, coldest, most forbidding region on earth.

Galen

my life in imperial Rome
2002
Twelve-year-old Galen describes his life as a slave in Rome under the Emperor Augustus. Features hand-printed text, drawings, and marginal notes.

Princess in the spotlight

2001
Mia, the fourteen-year-old New York City-raised heir to the throne of the tiny European country of Genovia, manages to alienate her best friend, her family, and her soon-to-be-subjects in the space of one national primetime interview.

The princess diaries

2000
Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.

North by night

a story of the Underground Railroad
1998
Presents the journal of a sixteen-year-old girl whose family operates a stop on the Underground Railroad.

A colonial Quaker girl

the diary of Sally Wister, 1777-1778
2000
Presents the diary of the sixteen-year-old daughter of a prominent Quaker family who moved with her family from British-occupied Philadelphia for the safety of the countryside during the Revolutionary War. Includes sidebars, activities, and a timeline related to this era.

A Civil War drummer boy

the diary of William Bircher, 1861-1865
2000
Excerpts from the diary of William Bircher, a fifteen-year-old Minnesotan who was a drummer during the Civil War. Supplemented by sidebars, activities, and a timeline of the era.

Jazmin's notebook

1998
Jazmin, an African-American teenager who lives with her older sister in a small Harlem apartment in the 1960s, finds strength in writing poetry and keeping a record of the events in her sometimes difficult life.

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