Dear America Series

Living on a Southern plantation before the Civil War, a young slave girl secretly learns how to read and write, and determines to teach others.

A twelve-year-old Jewish immigrant girl living in New York in the early 1900s persues her dream of acting.

The story of a twelve-year-old Pilgrim girl's first few months at Plymouth Colony.

A teenage Quaker farm girl is abducted by Indians in 1750s Pennsylvania.

Working at a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, teenage Mary, a recent immigrant from Ireland, finds that life in America is not what she expected.

The story of a teenage girl and her family who live in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, during the American Revolution.

Nellie Lee Love moves north with her family to Chicago -- the land of opportunity -- hoping to escape the racism of the rural south. Mamma believes a new start will help Nellie Lee's sister Erma Jean, who stopped speaking after a mysterious but horrifying event only she witnessed. Though life in this northern city is exciting, Nellie Lee sees that racism knows no boundaries. When a group of boys threaten Nellie Lee, Erma Jean finds her voice just in time to fend them off. Through the love of their family, both sisters learn that they possess the strength to triumph.

A teenage girl from a family of Texas pioneers experiences loss around the time of the battle of the Alamo.

Living in the Confederate South during the Civil War, a young Confederate girl faces a dilemma when a Union soldier is injured at her doorstep.