My Name is America
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My Name Is America is a series of historical novels for older boys published by Scholastic Press
Scholastic Press
Scholastic is a global book publishing company known for publishing educational materials for schools, teachers, and parents, and selling and distributing them by mail order and via book clubs and book fairs. It also has the exclusive United States' publishing rights to the Harry Potter book...

. Each book is written in the form of a journal of a fictional young man's life during an important event or time period in American history. The series was discontinued in 2004.

Books

  • The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce:A Pilgrim boy, Plymouth, 1620 by Ann Rinaldi
    Ann Rinaldi
    Ann Rinaldi is an American young-adult fiction author. She is best known for her historical fiction, including In My Father's House, The Last Silk Dress, An Acquaintance with Darkness, A Break with Charity, and Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons...

  • The Journal of William Thomas Emerson:A Revolutionary War Patriot Boston, Massachusetts, 1774 by Barry Denenberg
  • The Journal of Augustus Pelletier:Lewis and clark Expedition, 1804 by Kathryn Lasky
    Kathryn Lasky
    Kathryn Lasky is an American author whose work includes several Dear America books, The Royal Diaries books, Sugaring Time, The Night Journey, and the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series.-Biography:...

  • The Journal of Jedediah Barstow:An Emigrant on the Oregon Trail, Overland, 1845 by Ellen Levine
  • The Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds:The Donner Party Expedition, 1846 by Rodman Philbrick
    Rodman Philbrick
    Rodman Philbrick is an author of novels for adults and children. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1951, and currently lives in Maine and Florida. Since 1980 he has been married to Lynn Harnett, who sometimes co-writes with him. They have no children. He has also written using the pen names...

  • The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung:A Chinese Miner, California, 1852 by Laurence Yep
    Laurence Yep
    -Background:Chinese-American, Yep was born in San Francisco, California to Yep Gim Lew and Franche. His older brother, Thomas named him after studying a particular saint in a multicultural neighborhood that consisted of mostly African Americans. Growing up, he often felt torn between both...

  • The Journal of Sean Sullivan:A Transcontinental Railroad Worker, Nebraska and Points West, 1867 by William Durbin
  • The Journal of Joshua Loper:A Black Cowboy, The Chisholm Trail, 1871 by Walter Dean Myers
    Walter Dean Myers
    Walter Dean Myers is an African American author of young adult literature. Myers has written over fifty books, including novels and nonfiction works. He has won the Coretta Scott King Award for African American authors five times...

  • The Journal of Brian Doyle:A Greenhorn on an Alaskan Whaling Ship, The Florence, 1874 by Jim Murphy
    Jim Murphy (author)
    Jim Murphy is an American award-winning author of more than 30 fiction and non-fiction books for children and young adults, most of which have an historical focus. His most recent books are "A Savage Thunder" and "Truce"...

  • The Journal of Rufus Rowe:A Witness to the Battle of Fredricksburg, Bowling Green, VA 1862 by Sid Hite
  • The Journal of James Edmond Pease:A Civil War Union Soldier Virginia, 1863 by Jim Murphy
  • The Journal of Jesse Smoke:A Cherokee Boy, The Trail of Tears, 1838 by Joseph Bruchac
    Joseph Bruchac
    Joseph Bruchac is a writer of books relating to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a particular focus on northeastern Native American and Anglo-American lives and folklore. He has published works of poetry, novels, and short stories. He is from Saratoga Springs, New York, and is of...

  • The Journal of Finn Reardon:A Newsie, New York City, 1899 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
    Susan Campbell Bartoletti
    Susan Campbell Bartoletti is an American writer of children's literature. She was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, but eventually the family ended up in a small town in northeastern Pennsylvania. Susan started as an English teacher and inspired many students before deciding to pursue writing in...

  • The Journal of Otto Peltonen:A Finnish Immigrant, Hibbing, Minnesota, 1905 by William Durbin
  • The Journal of C.J. Jackson:A Dust Bowl Migrant, Oklahoma to California, 1935 by William Durbin
  • The Journal of Ben Uchida:Citizen 13559, Mirror Lake Internment Camp, California, 1942 by Barry Denenberg
  • The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins:A World War II Soldier, Normandy, France, 1944 by Walter Dean Myers
  • The Journal of Biddy Owens:The Negro Leagues, Birmingham, Alabama, 1948 by Walter Dean Myers
  • The Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty:United States Marine Corps, Khe Sanh, Vietnam, 1968 by Ellen Emerson White
    Ellen Emerson White
    Ellen Emerson White is an American author who has written a number of young adult fiction novels.- Writing :Ms. White's first book, Friends For Life was published while she was a senior at Tufts University. Ms. White grew up in Narragansett, Rhode Island. Many of her fiction novels feature...

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