Diary in America, Series One

Virginia keeps a diary about the civil war and this book does share some interesting facts and details about the history of the Battle of Gettysburg.

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Yes, it became the turning point battle for the Confederates but it was also very bloody and still the grounds are sacred and hollow and haunted as well. There is a lot that goes on in Virginia's life that summer like her father and brother being off to war and not hearing from them and life back home in Gettysburg. It's quite an easy, well-done read. A Kid's Review 4. I thought that My Brother's Keeper was a very good book. It was about a girl named Virginia Dickens. She lives in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in the year Her father and brother, Jed, have gone to Uncle Jack's house to help hide his horses from the Conferate soldiers.

She is staying with Reverend McCully and his family while they are away. The whole time she is scared for her brother and father and wants them to come home. Sometimes Virginia would be talking about something, then she would start talking about something else and it would be very confusing and hard to follow. Sometimes she just was rambling on and it got boring. The book, overall, was very good though. It had some very suspenseful parts where I was on the edge of my seat. For example, when Virginia was sitting in the tree while the Confederate soldiers were passing, I wasn't sure whether she would get caught or not and I was anxious to find out.

Some other books I would recommend are: This book was something that I didn't feel attached to the characters as I do the ones I do in the Dear America series. To me the character Virginia never really changed throughout the story. Maybe that is why the story is more then one part.

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She seems to try and change but instead just whines through the book. The way it was written did not seem to connect to me as a reader. Yes the little girl is writing to amuse herself as her brother taught her but it should be a flowing story as well.

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I just do not feel that it did flow freely as it should. In the end I just felt it was a generic version of the Dear America series. A Kid's Review 5. The book is about a young girl named Virginia that stays at her neighbors' house while her father and brother Jed, are at their Uncle's to help with the horses. We learn what happens when when the Civil War starts and she writes her thoughts and what she sees and hears in the diary Jed gave her before he left.

What I like about the book is how the author uses such descriptive words about the war and it seems like it's happening right in front of my my face. Also, I love what Virginia writes in her diary. It seems so true. Once you read this book you know what it feels like and what she's trying to say. The book's theme I think is you can never know what's going to happen when your family is away and what might come between you and your family. I'd give this book two thumbs up!! See all 14 reviews. What other items do customers buy after viewing this item?

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This period ended with an attack led by Lord Chatham on Antwerp which failed; Marryat caught a malarial fever from the marsh air, which affected his lungs, and which subsequently was to make him seriously ill on a number of occasions. About this time he wrote articles suggesting that the Navy could find a better way than impressment for recruiting its men, but these were badly received.

They had four sons and seven daughters, but three of the sons died before Frederick did, and the last one died young in He resigned from the Navy on the grounds of "private affairs" in He had already completed the manuscript of "The King's Own," and he now wrote and published "The Naval Officer, or Scenes and Adventures in the Life of Frank Mildmay," for which he was well paid, and which launched his literary career.

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The Oregon Trail and Alamo diaries really lit me up Jan 24, In elementary school we would go to the library once a week, there was one section that only had these books. Let's say I spent the whole time trying t figure out which one to choose. These were all I read, and I miss them. So, I might have to start reading them again. I blame these for my addiction to historical fiction, my hopeless romanticism, and the fact that I cry way too easy.

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Mar 30, I love them there my favorite books I have read all of them. Well almost all of them I think by the time i'm in high school i'll finish them. May 04, Not only did they teach me historical facts but I remembered those facts and those stories. Now I'm a jr. Jan 13, I read two of these in 5th grade, and all the rest over the summer: Except for one that I read last summer around when it came out, and two I've yet to read, plus one I don't like.

Still, I love the series! Feb 29, Mar 12, Ahhh, they had all of these at my library at my elementary school. Jul 07, I liked the one about the women's suffrage movement so much when I was younger that I wrote a twenty page research paper on the suffrage movement last year: D I use to love these books so much! May 08, I love these books so much! Jul 01, It should probably be taken off.

Nov 07, I love this list. Dear America is my favorite series! I've read 13 of them. Nov 23, This is my favorite series and I hope that it never ends! Jan 14, Thank you so much for this complete list. I had no idea there were so many! That's not the complete list. Thre are probably around books. Mar 28, This series was my childhood.