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The Great Plague: The Diary of Alice Paynton, London, 1665-1666
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Include books by the same authorIf I Die Before I Wake: The Flu Epidemic Diary of Fiona Macgregor
Jean Little · 243 pages
A girl named Fiona Macgregor experiences the 1918 flu epidemic firsthand.
Like the Willow Tree: The Diary of Lydia Amelia Pierce, Portland, Maine, 1918
Lois Lowry · 224 pages
After being orphaned during the influenza epidemic of 1918, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her fourteen-year-old brother are taken by their grieving uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake. Includes author's note about the Shakers.
Blitz: The Diary of Edie Benson, London, 1940-1941
Vince Cross · 160 pages
Anne Boleyn and Me: The Diary of Elinor Valjean, London, 1525-1536
Alison Prince · 256 pages
Available for the first time as an ebook from the bestselling My Story series, ANNE BOLEYN AND ME is set in 1525, during Henry VIII's reign. Allegiances are divided. Henry wants to divorce his devoted wife Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn.
Mark of the Plague
Kevin Sands · 529 pages
As the plague decimates London in 1665 and an assassin threatens the apothecary's life, apprentice Christopher Rowe and his faithful friend Tom, following a trail of puzzles, riddles, and secrets, risk their lives to untangle the heart of a dark conspiracy.
The Way We Fall
Megan Crewe · 309 pages
*It starts with an itch you just can't shake. Then comes a fever and a tickle in your throat. A few days later, you'll be blabbing your secrets and chatting with strangers like they’re old friends. Three more, and the paranoid hallucinations kick in.* And then you're dead.* When sixteen-year-old Kaelyn lets her best friend leave for school without saying goodbye, she never dreams that she mig
At the Sign of the Sugared Plum
Mary Hooper · 169 pages
In June 1665, excited at the prospect of coming to London to work at her sister Sarah's candy shop, teenaged Hannah is unconcerned about rumors of Plague until, as the hot summer advances and increasing numbers of people succumb to the disease, she and Sarah find themselves trapped in the city with no means of escape.
The Starving Time
Patricia Hermes · 109 pages
Elizabeth Barker continues to write to her "friend," her diary, as disease and lack of food further plague the suffering settlers at Jamestown.
With the Might of Angels: The Diary of Dawnie Rae Johnson, Hadley, Virginia, 1954
Andrea Davis Pinkney
Coretta Scott King winner Andrea Davis Pinkney brings her talents to a brand-new Dear America diary about the Civil Rights Movement. In the fall of 1955, twelve-year-old Dawn Rae Johnson's life turns upside down. After the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, Dawnie learns she will be attending a previously all-white school. She's the only one of her friends to go to this new sc
So Far From Home: the Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847
Barry Denenberg · 170 pages
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.
Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas
Louise Rennison · 183 pages
The saga of fourteen-year-old Georgia Nicolson continues as she travels to Scotland on a nightmarish family vacation, confesses her anxiety over being the girlfriend of a sex god, and tests the limits of true friendship.
A Desperate Road to Freedom: The Underground Railroad Diary of Julia May Jackson, Virginia to Canada West, 1863-1864
Karleen Bradford
Bloody Tower: The Diary of Tilly Middleton, London, 1553-1559
Valerie Wilding · 176 pages
I Was Jane Austen's Best Friend
Cora Harrison
In a series of journal entries, Jenny Cooper describes her stay with cousin Jane Austen in the 1790s, and her entrance into Jane's world of beautiful dresses, dances, secrets, gossip, and romance.
A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859
Patricia C. McKissack · 192 pages
In 1859 twelve-year-old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can read and write, records in her diary her experiences and her struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.
Kaiulani: The People's Princess, Hawaii, 1889
Ellen Emerson White · 238 pages
Follows the life of Victoria Kaiulani Cleghorn from 1889 to 1893 as she studies to be a better princess, even as Hawaii's monarchy, and her throne, are being undermined by American businessmen.
A Rebel's Daughter: The 1837 Rebellion Diary of Arabella Stevenson
Janet Lunn · 201 pages
When Christmas Comes Again: The World War I Diary of Simone Spencer
Beth Seidel Levine · 171 pages
Teenage Simone's diaries for 1917 and 1918 reveal her experiences as a carefree member of New York society, then as a "Hello girl," a volunteer switchboard operator for the Army Signal Corps in France.
Catherine: The Great Journey, Russia, 1743
Kristiana Gregory · 169 pages
Fourteen-year-old Prussian princess Sophia finds herself entangled in her mother's efforts to arrange a marriage between Sophia and Charles-Peter, a young German duke and nephew of the Russian empress Elizabeth. As Sophia's mother moves to make the match, she and Sophia must travel from their humble home in Zerbst, Prussia, to Russia--the kingdom of Elizabeth. There, Sophia is renamed Catherine an
Pompeii: A Roman Girl's Diary, AD 78
Sue Reid · 172 pages
It's August AD 78 and Claudia is at the Forum in Pompeii. It's a day of strange encounters and even odder portents. When the ground shakes Claudia is convinced it is a bad omen. What does it all mean? And why is she so disturbed by Vesuvius, the great volcano that looms over the city.
I Walk in Dread: The Diary of Deliverance Trembley, Witness to the Salem Witch Trials, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1691
Lisa Rowe Fraustino · 240 pages
Deliverance Trembley lives in Salem Village where she must take care of her sickly sister, Mem, and where she does her daily chores in fear of her cruel uncle's angry temper. But after four young girls from the village accuse some of the local women of being witches, the town becomes increasingly caught up in a witch hunt. When the villagers begin to realize that Deliverance is a clever girl who p
Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards
Katelan Janke · 186 pages
In sixteen-year-old Katelan Janke's first Dear America book, we meet Grace Edwards, a little girl growing up in the heart of the Texas panhandle, in the midst of the Dust Bowl. Fierce, dust-filled winds ravage the plains and threaten the town's agricultural livelihood, creating poverty and despair among Grace's neighbors. Will her family's farm survive?
The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: A World War 2 Soldier
Walter Dean Myers · 140 pages