My America


My America is a series of fictional diaries of children that take place during significant moments in American history. Created by Scholastic, it is a spin-off of the series, Dear America, geared toward younger children. The series covers: Jamestown, the American Revolution, the American Civil War, Westward Expansion, Underground Railroad, and slavery. Each topic has three books and is authored by a different writer. Writers include well respected and popular children's authors, such as Mary Pope Osborne of Magic Tree House fame. The series was discontinued in 2004, but the books continue to be a popular teaching device for introducing American history to elementary school age children.

Books

There are twenty-one books in the My America series:
Elizabeth "Lizzy" Mary Barker's Jamestown Colony Diaries by Patricia Hermes:
Our Strange New Land
The Starving Time
Season of Promise
Hope Penny Potter's Revolutionary War Diaries by Kristiana Gregory:
Five Smooth Stones
We Are Patriots
When Freedom Comes
Joshua Martin McCullough's Oregon Trail Diaries by Patricia Hermes:
Westward To Home
A Perfect Place
The Wild Year
Margaret "Meg" Cora Wells' Prairie Diaries by Kate McMullan:
As Far As I Can See
For This Land
A Fine Start
Corey Birdsong's Underground Railroad Diaries by Sharon Dennis Wyeth:
Freedom's Wings
Flying Free
Message In The Sky
Virginia "Ginny" B. Dickens' Civil War Diaries by Mary Pope Osborne & Will Osborne:
My Brother's Keeper
After The Rain
A Time To Dance
Sofia Monari's Immigrant Diaries by Kathryn Lasky:
Hope In My Heart
Home At Last
An American Spring