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The journal of James Edmond Pease

a Civil War Union soldier
1998
James Edmond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his experiences and those of "G" Company which he joined as a volunteer in the Union Army during the Civil War.

Junie B., first grader

aloha-ha-ha!
2006
Excitable Junie B. Jones manages to find trouble both before and during a trip to Hawaii and records each incident in a photo journal given to her by her teacher.

Diary of a fly

2007
A young fly discovers, day by day, that there is a lot to learn about being an insect, including the dangers of flyswatters and that heroes come in all shapes and sizes.

Polar, the Titanic bear

1994
This true story, told through the eyes of a young boy's toy bear, describes an American family's travels in the Edwardian era, culminating with their voyage on the famous Titanic.

The journal of Joshua Loper

a Black cowboy
1999
In 1871 Joshua Loper, a sixteen-year-old black cowboy, records in his journal his experiences while making his first cattle drive under an unsympathetic trail boss.

The journal of William Thomas Emerson

a Revolutionary War patriot
1998
William, a twelve-year-old orphan, writes of his experiences in pre-Revolutionary War Boston where he joins the cause of the patriots who are opposed to the British rule.

Dreams in the golden country

the diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish immigrant girl
1998
Twelve-year-old Zippy, a Jewish immigrant from Russia, keeps a diary account of the first eighteen months of her family's life on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1903-1904.

Across the wide and lonesome prairie

the Oregon Trail diary of Hattie Campbell
1997
In her diary, thirteen-year-old Hattie chronicles her family's arduous 1847 journey from Missouri to Oregon on the Oregon Trail.

A light in the storm

the Civil War diary of Amelia Martin
1999
In 1860 and 1861, while working in her father's lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware, fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War is beginning to devastate her divided state.

Amelia's bully survival guide

2006
Amelia starts fifth grade and is met with new experiences, some good--Space Camp--and some bad--getting bullied, by a very mean girl named Hilary.

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