My name is America

Publisher

Scholastic Inc

Pub. Date

1999

Language

English

Description

Twelve-year-old Ben Uchida keeps a journal of his experiences as a prisoner in a Japanese internment camp in Mirror Lake, California, during World War II

4) The journal of Joshua Loper: a Black cowboy

Author

Myers, Walter Dean

Series

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

1999

Language

English

Description

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

5) The journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: a World War II soldier

Author

Myers, Walter Dean

Series

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

1999

Language

English

Formats

Book, Book - Children's

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

Durbin, William

Series

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

1999

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

7) The journal of Augustus Pelletier: the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Author

Lasky, Kathryn

Series

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

2000

Language

English

Description

A fictional journal kept by twelve-year-old Augustus Pelletier, the youngest member of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery

8) The journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce, a pilgrim boy, Plimoth Plantation, 1620

Author

Rinaldi, Ann

Series

Publisher

Schloastic

Pub. Date

2000

Language

English

Description

A fourteen-year-old indentured servant keeps a journal of his experiences on the Mayflower and during the building of Plimoth Plantation in 1620 and 1621

9) The journal of Otto Peltonen: a Finnish immigrant

Author

Durbin, William

10) The journal of Wong Ming-Chung: a Chinese miner

Author

Yep, Laurence

Series

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

2000

Language

English

Description

A young Chinese boy nicknamed Runt records his experiences in a journal as he travels from southern China to California in 1852 to join his uncle during the Gold Rush

11) The journal of Biddy Owens: the Negro leagues

Author

Myers, Walter Dean

12) The journal of Douglas Allen Deeds: the Donner Party expedition

Author

Philbrick, W. R

Series

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

2001

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

13) The journal of Jesse Smoke: a Cherokee boy

Author

Bruchac, Joseph

Series

Publisher

Scholastic Inc

Pub. Date

2001

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

14) The journal of C.J. Jackson: a Dust Bowl migrant

Author

Durbin, William

Series

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

2002

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

15) The journal of Jedediah Barstow, an emigrant on the Oregon Trail

Author

Levine, Ellen

Series

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

2002

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

16) The journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty, United States Marine Corps

Author

White, Ellen Emerson

Series

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

2002

Language

English

Description

My name is America
Dear America book

An eighteen-year-old Marine records in his journal his experiences in Vietnam during the siege of Khe Sanh, 1967-1968. Includes a history of Vietnam, war timeline, glossary, and related military information

17) The journal of Brian Doyle: a greenhorn on an Alaskan whaling ship

Author

Murphy, Jim

Series

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

c2004

Language

English

Description

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell

In 1874, Brian Doyle records in his diary how he ran away from his home in San Francisco, joined the crew of a whaling ship, and endured storms, hostile shipmates, and being stranded in the Arctic

18) The journal of Finn Reardon, newsie

Author

Series

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

2003

Language

English

Description