diaries

In the diary account of her journey from Ireland in 1847 and of her work in a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, fourteen-year-old Mary reveals a great longing for her family.

Thirteen-year-old Madeline's diaries for 1941 and 1942 reveal her experiences living on Long Island during World War II while her father is away in the Navy.

Joshua and his family begin a new life in the wilderness of Oregon Country, where each day is a new adventure.

In his diary, a wombat describes his life of eating, sleeping, and getting to know some new human neighbors.

Nine-year-old Elizabeth keeps a journal of her experiences in the New World as she encounters Indians, suffers hunger and the death of friends, and helps her father build their first home.

In 1848, nine-year-old Joshua Martin McCullough writes a journal of his family's journey from Missouri to Oregon in a covered wagon.

In 1609, Elizabeth Barber's family sails from Plymouth, England, to Jamestown, Virginia, establishing America's first permanent English colony. She and her family face many hardships, but they are determined to make a home in their new land.

When her mother and sister fall ill, Meg and her brother Preston are sent to live with relatives on the prairie to avoid the cholera epidemic in St. Louis.

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.

Book 3 of Lizzie's diary about the Colony of Jamestown.