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Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
140 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A seventeen-year-old soldier from central Virginia records his experiences in a journal as his regiment takes part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and subsequent battles to liberate France.
6) The journal of Sean Sullivan: a Transcontinental Railroad worker : Nebraska and points west, 1867
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
188 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm + 1 folded sheet.
Language
English
Description
In 1867, fifteen-year-old Sean experiences both hardships and rewards when he joins his father in working on the building of the Transcontinental Rairoad.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
163 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1905 fifteen-year-old Otto describes in his journal how he travels from Finland to America, joining his father in a dreary iron mining community in Minnesota and becoming involved in a union fight for better working conditions.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
141 pages : black and white photographs ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Teenager Biddy Owens' 1948 journal about working for the Birmingham Black Barons includes the games and the players, racism the team faces from New Orleans to Chicago, and his family's resistance to his becoming a professional baseball player. Includes a historical note about the evolution of the Negro Leagues.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
155 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Douglas Deeds, a fifteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his travels by wagon train as a member of the ill-fated Donner Party, which became stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846-47.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
pages ; cm.
Language
English
Description
Jesse Smoke, a sixteen-year-old Cherokee, begins a journal in 1837 to record stories of his people and their difficulties as they face removal along the Trail of Tears. Includes a historical note giving details of the removal.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
169 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old C.J. records in a journal the conditions of the Dust Bowl that cause the Jackson family to leave their farm in Oklahoma and make the difficult journey to California, where they find a harsh life as migrant workers.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
170 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In his 1845 diary, thirteen-year-old orphan Jedediah describes his wagon train journey to Oregon, in which he confronts rivers and sandy plains, bears and rattlesnakes, and the challenges of living with his fellow travelers. Includes historical notes.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Civil War JOURNAL OF JAMES EDMOND PEASE is now in paperback with an exciting repackaging!Ignorant to the bitter realities of military life, 16-year-old James enlists in the Union Army at the dawn of the Civil War. When his lieutenant assigns him to be the company historian of the G Company of the 122nd Regiment, New York Volunteers, he is initially at a loss as to what exactly he is supposed to record. As the days pass, James settles into his...
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