My and her Dear America

I noticed recently that my younger sister has started to read the Dear America series. Right now she is reading Early Sunday Morning, A coal Miner’s Wife. I remember reading that series when I was little younger. I still have a few copies of Dear America inside my desk drawer, about nine copies. I really liked reading Dear America Series. What I remember most about the Dear America series is that I thought they were non-fiction until I discovered that they were historical fiction and were written by varieties of authors. But they were still really good and were very realistic to me.

The very first Dear America book I was ever given was the Winter of Red Snow. It was portrayed in the revolutionary war is what I remembered. But that is the extant of my memory because I was really young when I gotten it perhaps I was about nine or ten years old. But I have a few others I remember because they were one of my favorite books reading several years back.

One of the Dear America books that I own is a special edition of One Eye Laughing the other Weeping It is the Diary of Julie Weiss who was a rich upper class Jewish girl from Vienna, Austria who was forced to move to New York In 1938 because of the Nazi takeover in her home. What I really liked about this book was that it was based in war world two which is a time in history that I was interested in. Because of this interest I was really motivated to read this book and it became one of my favorites. Another one that I have is A Picture of Freedom, the diary of Clotee, a slave girl. This one is easily my favorite one out of the entire series because I was intrigued by the idea of a black slave girl who was keeping a diary. I’m sure I have read that book more times than reading the Harry Potter Series.

I also own Color me Dark: the great migration North which is another of my favorites, Christmas after all, Survival in the Storm, and So Far from Home. I also have read Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie, and Mirror, Mirror on the Wall. There might be more but I don’t really remember that well. But anyway I am happy that my younger sister is reading the series I just worry that she might ruin my copies because most are still in a brand new condition and there hard covers. But anyway I just hope enjoys my copies because I really enjoyed them.