Name: Dear America
Uploaded: 2022-01-19T17:16:49.000Z
Description: Based on the best-selling Scholastic books, "Dear America" features the rich and spirited stories of fictional teenage women at various turning points in American history.

Based on the best-selling Scholastic books, "Dear America" features the rich and spirited stories of fictional teenage women at various turning points in American history.

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Captured by a Native tribe, a young Quaker girl falls in love with a handsome warrior and wonders if she will be able to return to her old life.

Standing in the Light

Mem, a twelve-year-old Pilgrim, has just arrived in the New World. With the help of the American Native Squanto, she endures her first year at Plymouth Colony.

A Journey to the New World

In the pre-Civil War South, a young slave girl secretly learns how to read and write. She determines to help and teach other slaves.

A Picture of Freedom

Mary, a teenage immigrant from Ireland, finds that working in a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts is not what she'd envisioned as new life in America.

So Far From Home

A Russian-Jewish immigrant girl lives with her family in a tenement on the Lower East Side. She strives to learn English and pursue her dream of acting.

Dreams in a Golden Country

During the Revolutionary War, young Abby Stewart befriends Martha Washington and helps Revolutionary soldiers in Valley Forge, PA.

The Winter of the Red Snow

In this fictional account of Texas history, a young pioneer girl writes in her diary of the fight for freedom against the Mexicans.

A Line in the Sand

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.

When Will This Cruel War Be Over?

A young African-American girl moves north with her family to Chicago, the land of opportunity, hoping to escape the racism of the rural South.

Dear America

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