Author : Ellen Emerson White
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,64 MB
Release : 2012-06
Category : Diaries
ISBN : 9780545398886
An eighteen-year-old Marine records in his journal his experiences in Vietnam during the siege of Khe Sanh, 1967-1968. Includes a history of Vietnam, war timeline, glossary, and related military information.
Author : Ellen Emerson White
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 27,68 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Khe Sanh, Battle of, Vietnam, 1968
ISBN : 9780439876537
An eighteen-year-old Marine records in his journal his experiences in Vietnam during the siege of Khe Sanh, 1967-1968, in a story that includes a history of Vietnam and related military information.
Author : Ellen Emerson White
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 38,53 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780439148894
In 1968 Massachusetts, after her brother Patrick goes to fight in Vietnam, fifteen-year-old Molly records in her diary how she misses her brother, volunteers at a Veterans' Administration Hospital, and tries to make sense of the war in Vietnam and the tumultuous events in the United States. Includes historical notes.
Author : Ellen Emerson White
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 47,88 MB
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545505364
The Vietnam War journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty is now available in paperback, with an exciting repackaging!Determined to do his duty for his country, Patrick Seamus Flaherty joins the Marines right after graduation to fight in the Vietnam War. But Southeast Asia is a far cry from Patrick's hometown of Boston, and as soon as he arrives, he realizes that he's made a terrible mistake.Confronted with oppressive heat, dense jungles, and an enemy that is everywhere, Patrick is overwhelmed by life on the battlefield. With the help of his comrades, Patrick slowly starts to find a way to deal with the harsh realities he faces. But under constant assault by the North Vietnamese, Patrick isn't sure he'll ever make it home again, and as the months drag on, he and his unit question whether they're actually making a difference. Writing in the journal his father gave him before shipping out, Patrick brings Khe Sanh to vivid life through the smells, tastes, sounds, horrors, loneliness, and the friendships that are so much of the chaos called war.
Author : Ellen Emerson White
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 40,16 MB
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545415012
One of the most popular Dear America diaries of all time, Ellen Emerson White's bestselling VOYAGE ON THE GREAT TITANIC is now back in print with a gorgeous new package!Five years ago, Margaret Ann Brady's older brother left her in the care of an orphanage and immigrated to America. When the orphanage receives an unusual request from an American woman looking for a traveling companion, Margaret's teachers agree that she is the perfect candidate to accompany Mrs. Carstairs on the TITANIC, so that once Margaret arrives in New York she will be free to join her brother in Boston. But the TITANIC is destined for tragedy, and Margaret's journey is thrown into a frozen nightmare when the ship collides with an iceberg.
Author : Walter Dean Myers
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 21,82 MB
Release : 1999
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 9780439445764
A fictionalized account of the D-Day invasion of Normandy and subsequent battles to liberate France, told through the journal entries of a seventeen-year-old soldier from central Virginia.
Author : Rodman Philbrick
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 44,43 MB
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545628229
A companion to Newbery Honor winning author Rodman Philbrick's Freak the Mighty. This is the dramatic, heart-wrenching tale of Max and Worm, two outsiders who turn to each other for survival. Meet Maxwell Kane, the brooding giant-of-a-boy who escaped from his basement hiding place and faced the real world in FREAK THE MIGHTY.Still grieving over the loss of his best friend, Kevin, Max finds himself defending a young, solitary girl cruelly nicknamed "Worm" because she loves to read so much.When Max gets blamed for a horrific crime, he and Worm are forced to run for their lives. They flee across America -- hunted by the police, and pursued by the mysterious man known as the Undertaker. The only way they can survive is to confront Worm's darkest and most revealing secret. And that means facing something more frightening than death itself.
Author : Jim Murphy
Publisher : Scholastic Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,93 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Diaries
ISBN : 9780545398879
James Edmond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his experiences and those of "G" Company which he joined as a volunteer in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Author : Kathryn Lasky
Publisher :
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 16,85 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780590684897
A fictional journal kept by twelve-year-old Augustus Pelletier, the youngest member of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery.
Author : Sid Hite
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 23,5 MB
Release : 2001-11-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780439098298
Stick, a Civil War veteran in search of his lost love, and Whittle, an orphan on the run, team up on a wild adventure out West where they are soon involved in serious troubles and face unexpected dangers. Reprint.
