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While not technically a series because the characters do not repeat, American Diaries has the feel of a series because each book is structured the same. The book starts off with a page or two diary entry by a 12-year-old girl from various locations and time periods. The entire book (about 140 pages) takes place in one 24-hour period. Then it ends with another diary entry.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading the ones I have and am looking forward to one coming out this fall set in St. Louis (my hometown).
1. Sarah Anne Hartford Massachusetts, 1651
2. Emma Eileen Grove Mississippi, 1865
3. Anisett Lundberg California, 1851 Anisett helps her mother cook for gold miners in California but dreams of working a ranch like her father wanted. When she finds a gold nugget, she thinks she sees a way until her family becomes endangered. Anisett helps her family out of the trouble she got them into.
4. Mary Alice Peale Philadelphia, 1777 The daughter of a wealthy Tory sympathizer, Mary's brother has joined Washington's army and been banished from the family. The night of the ball her family is giving, she finds him in the shed, seriously wounded. She must get help for him to live.
5. Willow Chase Kansas Territory, 1847
6. Ellen Elizabeth Hawkins Mobeetie, Texas, 1886 While Ellen's father is away, her grandfather gets hurt and she must save the ranch and prove she can be a cattle rancher as well as any boy.
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