Catalog Search Results
Publisher
A360 Media, LLC
Language
English
Description
Eight decades ago, an aspiring young writer received a journal for her 13th birthday. Her life and history were forever changed. IT WAS LOVE at first sight for Anne Frank when she saw a red-checkered diary on display in a store window in 1942. She had to have it—and days later, it was among the gifts she received on her 13th birthday. When her Jewish family escaped to the Secret Annex amid Nazi persecution in World War II, the diary was the first
...Author
Series
Diary of an 8-bit warrior volume 2
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pet slimes. A potion brew-off. A creepy forest that no one will explain. What's a twelve-year-old warrior-in-training to do?
As Runt and his friends continue their battle preparation, they face their biggest challenges yet—and it's not just those zombies decked out in body armor (which is really weird, by the way). Runt's got a brand new nemesis who will stop at nothing to claim the top spot in the warrior competition at school....
As Runt and his friends continue their battle preparation, they face their biggest challenges yet—and it's not just those zombies decked out in body armor (which is really weird, by the way). Runt's got a brand new nemesis who will stop at nothing to claim the top spot in the warrior competition at school....
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Nin's years of struggle and final triumph as an author in America. "Transcending mere self-revelation... the diary examines human personality with a depth and understanding seldom surpassed since Proust...dream and fact are balanced and...in their joining lie the elements of masterpiece...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
In a series of diary entries, Princess Elizabeth, the eleven-year-old daughter of King Henry VIII, celebrates holidays and birthdays, relives her mother's execution, revels in her studies, and agonizes over her father's health.
Author
Publisher
Blue Earth Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Presents the diary of the sixteen-year-old daughter of a prominent Quaker family who moved with her family from British-occupied Philadelphia for the safety of the countryside during the Revolutionary War. Includes sidebars, activities, and a timeline related to this era.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
In 1769, thirteen-year-old Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa, begins a journal chronicling her life at the Austrian court and her preparations for her future role as queen of France. Includes information about the history of the period, a family tree, and contemporary portraits.
13) Freedom's wings
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Language
English
Description
A nine-year-old slave keeps a diary of his journey to freedom along the Underground Railroad in 1857.
Author
Series
Princess diaries volume 1
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.
Author
Series
Princess diaries volume 2
Language
English
Description
Having recently discovered she is the sole heir to the throne of a tiny European principality, fourteen-year-old Manhattan resident Mia writes in her journal about her attempts to cope with this news, as well as with more typical teenage concerns.
17) Flying free
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
In 1858, nine-year-old Corey Birdsong and his family, fugitive slaves from Kentucky, build a new life in Amherstburg, Canada, while still hoping to help those they left behind.
18) Diary of a worm
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A young worm discovers, day by day, that there are some very good and some not so good things about being a worm in this great big world.
19) Home at last
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
In 1903, ten-year-old Sofia and her family begin their life in America in Boston, where her father works in a grocery, her mother sells pasta, and she goes to school while trying to stay in touch with her old friend Maureen. Includes historical notes.
20) Hope in my heart
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
After her family immigrates to America from Italy in 1903, ten-year-old Sofia is quarantined at the Ellis Island Immigration Station, where she makes a good friend but endures nightmarish conditions. Includes historical notes.
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Jackson County Oregon can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request