American Diaries

30 primary works • 32 total works

Sarah Anne Hartford

by Kathleen Duey

Published 1 April 1996

Twelve-year-old Sarah breaks the Sabbath in Puritan New England and faces a moral dilemma when an innocent person is accused in her place.

Sarah Anne Hartford, Massachusetts, 1651

by Kathleen Duey

Published 1 April 1996

Emma Eileen Grove

by Kathleen Duey

Published 1 April 1996

It’s 1865 and the war is over, but the hardship and suffering have not ended for Emma, whose mother is dead and father is missing. With her brother and sister, Emma boards the Sultana, a paddle wheel steamboat, hoping to find refuge in St. Louis with relatives. After Yankee soldiers returning north from Confederate prisons are crowded aboard the boat, disaster shatters Emma’s hopes. Fighting for her life in the flooded Mississippi, Emma discovers courage she did not know she possessed.

Emma Eileen Grove, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1865

by Kathleen Duey

Published 1 April 1996

Anisett Lundberg, California, 1851

by Kathleen Duey

Published 1 June 1996

Anisett Lundberg: American Diaries #3

by Kathleen Duey

Published 1 June 1996

The small piece of gold which Anisett carries in her pocket causes grave danger for her family living in the rough world of the California gold camps.

Mary Alice Peale #4

by Kathleen Duey

Published 1 August 1996

Mary Alice Peale

by Kathleen Duey

Published 1 August 1996

When her wounded brother returns from battle, twelve-year-old Mary must get help for him without telling her father, a wealthy Tory, who has disowned his son for joining General Washington's Continental Army.

Willow Chase

by Kathleen Duey

Published 1 February 1997

In 1847, when her mother's remarriage sends them on a difficult journey to California, Willow is swept overboard fording the South Platte River and must survive and search for her family.

Ellen Elizabeth Hawkins #6

by Kathleen Duey

Published 1 April 1997

Ellen Elizabeth Hawkins: Texas 1886

by Kathleen Duey

Published 1 April 1997

Alexia Ellery Finsdale, San Francisco, 1905

by Kathleen Duey

Published 1 October 1997

Alexia Ellery Finsdale

by Kathleen Duey

Published 1 October 1997

Evie Peach, St. Louis, 1857

by Kathleen Duey

Published 1 December 1997

Evie Peach

by Kathleen Duey

Published 1 December 1997

Emancipated by their owner's will, thirteen-year-old Evie and her father struggle to gain Mama's freedom and to make a home for themselves in the pre-Civil War South.

Celou Sudden Shout, Idaho, 1826

by Kathleen Duey

Published 1 March 1998

Summer Maccleary: Virginia, 1749

by Kathleen Duey

Published 1 July 1998

While working as an indentured servant on a plantation in Virginia in 1749, thirteen-year-old Summer must prove her innocence when her master's daughter accuses her of stealing.

Agnes May Gleason

by Kathleen Duey

Published 1 October 1998

Walsenburg, Colorado -- June 6, 1933 Money! Is that all I ever think about? I will be so glad when these hard times are over. Now that her older brother Ralph has left home, Agnes has to work harder than ever on her family's struggling dairy farm. But can she do a good enough job to please her demanding father? When her father's accident leaves Agnes in charge, she has to decide whether to obey her parents and dump a whole day's worth of milk or take a chance that will save them precious money and keep their customers happy. When things go wrong, Agnes does her best, but will her bold plans make her father proud -- or angry?

Amelina Carrett

by Kathleen Duey

Published 1 April 1999

Josie Poe

by Kathleen Duey

Published 1 August 1999

Living with her family in the farming town of Palouse, Washington, during World War II, thirteen-year-old Josie worries about her brother's strange behavior and wonders why he has not enlisted.