Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Winter Of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary Of Abigail Jane Stewart | 1996 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 2 | A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia ~ 1859 | 1997 | Mary Pope Osborne | N/A |
| 3 | A Picture Of Freedom | 1997 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 4 | Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell ~ 1847 | 1997 | Mary Pope Osborne | N/A |
| 5 | I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865 | 1997 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 6 | West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi | 1998 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 7 | Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl, New York City, 1903 | 1998 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 8 | Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763 | 1998 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 9 | A Line in the Sand: The Alamo Diary of Lucinda Lawrence | 1998 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 10 | My Heart is on the Ground: the Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl, Carlisle Indian School, Pennsylvania, 1880 | 1999 | Mary Pope Osborne | N/A |
| 11 | The Great Railroad Race: The Diary of Libby West, Utah Territory 1868 | 1999 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 12 | One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss, Vienna, Austria to New York 1938 | 2000 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 13 | My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck, Long Island, New York 1941 | 2000 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 14 | Early Sunday Morning: the Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii, 1941 | 1998 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 15 | Where Have All the Flowers Gone? The Diary of Molly MacKenzie Flaherty, Boston, Massachusetts ~ 1968 | 2002 | Mary Pope Osborne | N/A |
| 16 | A Time for Courage: The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen, Washington, D.C. 1917 | 2002 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 17 | Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Diary of Bess Brennan, The Perkins School for the Blind, 1932 | 2002 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 18 | Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards, Dalhart, Texas 1935 | 2002 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 19 | Love Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson | 2003 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 20 | Love Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson, Green Marsh, Massachusetts ~ 1774 | 2003 | Mary Pope Osborne | N/A |
| 21 | All the Stars in the Sky: The Santa Fe Trail Diary of Florrie Mack Ryder, The Santa Fe Trail ~ 1848 | 2003 | Mary Pope Osborne | N/A |
| 22 | All the Stars in the Sky | 2003 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 23 | Look to the Hills: The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl, New York Colony 1763 | 2004 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 24 | I Walk in Dread: The Diary of Deliverance Trembley, Witness to the Salem Witch Trials, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1691 | 2004 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 25 | Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker, New York City 1909 | 2004 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 26 | The Fences Between Us: The Diary of Piper Davis, Seattle, Washington, 1941 | 2010 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 27 | Like the Willow Tree: The Diary of Lydia Amelia Pierce, Portland, Maine ~ 1918 | 2011 | Mary Pope Osborne | N/A |
| 28 | Cannons at Dawn: The Second Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania ~ 1779 | 2011 | Mary Pope Osborne | N/A |
| 29 | Like the Willow Tree | 2011 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 30 | A City Tossed and Broken: The Diary of Minnie Bonner, San Francisco, California, 1906 | 2013 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 31 | Down the Rabbit Hole, Chicago, Illinois, 1871: The Diary of Pringle Rose | 2013 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 32 | Down the Rabbit Hole: The Diary of Pringle Rose, Chicago, Illinois ~ 1871 | 2013 | Mary Pope Osborne | N/A |
| 33 | A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620 | 1996 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 34 | When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Virginia, 1864 | 1996 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 35 | Stationery Pack | 1998 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 36 | Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic 1912 | 1998 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 37 | A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin | 1999 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 38 | My Heart is on the Ground | 1999 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 39 | The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo Girl | 1999 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 40 | A Coal Miner’s Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska, Lattimer, Pennsylvania, 1896 | 2000 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 41 | Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North | 2000 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 42 | Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana 1932 | 2001 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 43 | My Face to the Wind: The Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher, Broken Bow, Nebraska 1881 | 2001 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 44 | Valley of the Moon: The Diary of María Rosalía de Milagros, Sonoma Valley, Alta Valley, California, 1846, | 2001 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 45 | My Secret War : The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck | 2002 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 46 | When Christmas Comes Again: The World War I Diary of Simone Spencer | 2002 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 47 | Where Have All the Flowers Gone? | 2002 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 48 | Land of the Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, An English Girl in Minnesota | 2003 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 49 | Seeds of Hope: The Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild, California Territory 1849 | 2003 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 50 | So Far From Home: the Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847 | 2003 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 51 | Cannons at Dawn | 2011 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 52 | With the Might of Angels: The Diary of Dawnie Rae Johnson, Hadley, Virginia, 1954 | 2011 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
| 53 | Behind the Masks: The Diary of Angeline Reddy, Bodie, California, 1880 | 2012 | Mary Pope Osborne | Buy |
The Dear America series is a long-running collection of historical fiction books published by Scholastic. Each book takes the form of a diary written by a fictional young girl living through a specific period in American history. The series launched in 1996 and eventually grew to include 53 titles, covering events from the Plymouth Colony and the Revolutionary War to the Great Depression and the Vietnam era. Various authors contributed individual volumes, with the series published under a shared brand.
The books are written for middle-grade readers and use the diary format to make historical events feel personal and immediate. Entries like A Journey to the New World, Voyage on the Great Titanic, and A Coal Miner’s Bride place their characters at the center of real historical moments. The series was popular enough to spawn companion lines including My Name Is America (told from boys’ perspectives) and My America (for younger readers). Several of the books were also adapted into TV movies.