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1) Seeds of Hope: The Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild

Author

Gregory, Kristiana

Series

Dear America

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

2001.

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5

Language

English

Description

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A diary account of fourteen-year-old Susanna Fairchild's life in 1849, when her father succumbs to gold fever on the way to establish his medical practice in Oregon after losing his wife and money on their steamship journey from New York. Includes a historical note.

2) Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell

Author

Gregory, Kristiana

Series

Dear America

Publisher

Scholastic

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4

Language

English

Description

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In her diary, thirteen-year-old Hattie chronicles her family's arduous 1847 journey from Missouri to Oregon on the Oregon Trail. In a diary format, this novel chronicles the hardships that pioneers endured during a trip west on the Oregon Trail.

3) The great railroad race: the diary of Libby West

Author

Gregory, Kristiana

Series

Dear America

Publisher

Scholastic Inc

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5

Language

English

Description

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As the daughter of a newspaper reporter, fourteen-year-old Libby keeps a diary account of the exciting events surrounding her during the building of the railroad in the West in 1868.

4) Jimmy Spoon and the Pony Express

Author

Gregory, Kristiana

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

c1994

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3

Language

English

Description

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Having returned from living with his friends the Shoshoni, seventeen-year-old Jimmy Spoon grows restless again and seeks adventure by taking a job with the Pony Express.

5) A journey of faith

Author

Gregory, Kristiana

Series

Prairie River volume 1

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7

Language

English

6) A grateful harvest

Author

Gregory, Kristiana

Series

Prairie River volume 2

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

2003

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6

Language

English

Description

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As Nessa continues to struggle since coming to Prairie River, and things aren't getting easier, she's having trouble making friends, her job as the town teacher is on shaky ground, and she learns that many people still have doubts about her. On a personal note, Nessa wants to be Ivy's friend, so she decides to tell her a secret, someone else's secret, and it swells into a devastating rumor. Professionally, Nessa is reinstated as the town's teacher...