Dear America: Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie

from JessBass87

I read this series as a kid back when they were originally published. I remember I used to but then at Sam's Club. I loved every one I read but this one was my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE. I read it so many times the pages were falling out and the bookmark ribbon was in strings.

from TeacherLibrarian

Gregory, Kristiana. Across the Wide and Lonesome Praire, The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell, 1847. (1997). New York: Scholastic. The Campbell family travels across the Oregon Trial from Independence, Missouri to Oregon City as part of a group of 250 wagons in 1847. The book is written as t...

from Maggie_Rum

This is probably my favorite Dear America book. The story feels real, Hattie is flawed, and the setting is unsettling. It's fun to read, and you learn more than you would being lectured in 5th grade history.

from psychedelicmicrobus

Loved this book when I was a kid. Still have the copy my grandma bought me. I like that Hattie is not a perfect person- she has unkind thoughts just like anybody else, and this is her (fictional) diary, so of course it would be only natural to write in one's diary the ugly things you can't say ou...

from EllieGiles

The Dear America series is a series of historical fiction chapter books which highlight the lives of children living in specific time periods in U.S. history. Each story is written as a series of diary entries made by the child it studies. This story shows the life of Hattie Campbell, a young gir...