Dear America: Dear America: When Will This Cruel War Be Over? (Hardcover)

from t1bclasslibrary

This diary captures the civil war from the perspective of an adolescent, southern girl living on a plantation. Because she is in Virginia, her home and her family's livelihood, along with those of many of the neighbors, is ruined and stolen by enemy soldiers. While it's more sympathetic to the so...

from bplteen

Review by: Natasha Though Topics: Responsibility When will this cruel war be over? is a about a fourteen year old girl named Emma Simpson. Emma's brother was in the civil war. Emma's brother died in the civil war and her family was thinking of past times with him. Emma hated the civil war because...

from sgerbic

Reviewed December 2006 Quick read, but grabs you as the other Dear America books do. Emma is 14 or 15 years old living in Virgina. Her family is very anti-abolitionist and father is fighting in the war on the Confederate side. Brother Cole dies on the first page and death is mentioned nearly ever...

from taralentz

Emma's brother was killed in the Fall of 1863 and the family will not have Christmas celebrations due to the war and loss of her brother. Emma decided at the beginning of 1864 to read more than she did the previous year. As the year goes on basic supplies start to run out. Emma writes in her diar...

from justagirlwithabook

I don't remember much of these books as individual books, but I remember reading them all as a young, avid reader. I think that ultimately these books are the reason why I love historical fiction novels so much. They all did such a great job of taking me to a different time and place and making i...