Set of 8 DEAR AMERICA Books Covering 1859 - 1896 Civil War Period

DEAR AMERICA is a series of historical fiction novels for older girls published by Scholastic in 1996. The series was cancelled in 2004 with its final release, Hear My Sorrow. However, it was relaunched in the fall of 2010. Each book is written in the form of a diary of a young woman's life during important events or time periods in American history. The DEAR AMERICA series covers a wide range of historical topics. The breadth of historical topics covered in these books through fiction makes the DEAR AMERICA series a favorite teaching device of history schoolteachers around the country. The re-launch series and releases contain a new cover style and different pictures of the main characters than those of the original releases. Originally all the books had a ribbon inserted as a bookmark for the books but were removed in the later releases. This set of eight (8) books covers the period immediately before the Civil War through the end of the 19th century and includes I THOUGHT MY SOUL WOULD RISE AND THE DIARY OF PATSY, A FREED GIRL which received the Coretta Scott King Award in 1998. The books 1) A Picture of The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl (Belmont Plantation, Virginia, 1859), 2) A Light In the The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin (Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861), 3) I Thought My Should Would Rise and The Diary of Patsy, A Freed Girl (Mars Bluff, South Caroline, 1865), 4) The Railroad The Diary of Libby West (Utah Territory, 1868), 5) The Journal of Joshua A Black Cowboy (The Chisholm Trail, 1871), 6) My Heart Is On the The Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl (Carlisle Indian School, Pennsylvania, 1880), 7) West To A Land of The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi (New York to Idaho Territory, 1883), and 8) A Coal Miner’s The Diary of Anetka Kaminska (Lattimer, Pennsylvania, 1896).