American diaries

Twelve-year-old Sarah breaks the Sabbath in Puritan New England and faces a moral dilemma when an innocent person is accused in her place.

The small piece of gold which Anisett carries in her pocket causes grave danger for her family living in the rough world of the California gold camps.

In 1847, when her mother's remarriage sends them on a difficult journey to California, Willow is swept overboard fording the South Platte River and must survive and search for her family.

In San Francisco near the beginning of the twentieth century, Alexia faces a moral dilemma when her con man father tries to cheat the widow who has been like a mother to Alexia.

In 1827 in Idaho twelve-year-old Celou Sudden Shout, who is half-French and half-Shoshone, attempts to rescue her mother and two younger brothers from the Crow warriors who kidnapped them.

In 1933, when her father's foot injury makes it impossible for him to do farm work for a while, thirteen-year-old Agnes steps in, proving herself and revealing her understanding of him.

World War II changes life for everyone in the small farming town of Palouse, Washington, including the relationship between Josie Poe and her older brother Tom.

While trying to hide her horse, Maddie meets up with two Yankee soldiers who make her change her mind about who is right and who is wrong in the war between North and South.

On the evening before President Wilson's inauguration, Francesca decides to disobey her parents and take a stand with the other women picketing the White House for their right to vote.

Different girls, living in different periods of America's past, reveal their hearts' secrets in the pages of their diaries. Grandmamma has died and Zellie has no other family. She desperately needs her job with mean-spirited Mrs. Gird, who runs a boardinghouse for the girls who work at the textile mills. When Mrs. Gird tells Zellie to eavesdrop and report what she hears, Zellie is surprised and does not know what to do.