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1) Weetamoo, heart of the Pocassets

Author

Smith, Patricia Clark

Series

Royal diaries

Publisher

Scholastic

Language

English

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The 1653-1654 diary of a fourteen-year-old Pocasset Indian girl, destined to become a leader of her tribe, describes how her life changes with the seasons, after a ritual fast she undertakes, and with her tribe's interaction with the English "Coat-men" of the nearby Plymouth Colony.

2) Eleanor: crown jewel of Aquitaine

Author

Gregory, Kristiana

Series

Royal diaries

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

2002

Language

English

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The diary of Eleanor, first daughter of the duke of Aquitaine, from 1136 until 1137, when at age fifteen she becomes queen of France. Includes historical notes on her later life.

3) Kristina: the girl king

Author

Meyer, Carolyn

Series

Royal diaries

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

2003

Language

English

Description

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A novel in diary form tells how, following her father's death in 1638, six-year-old Kristina begins her education to take over as the ruler of Sweden on her eighteenth birthday.

4) Anacaona, Golden Flower

Author

Danticat, Edwidge

Series

Royal diaries

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

2005

Language

English

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Beginning in 1490, Anacaona keeps a record of her life as a possible successor to the supreme chief of Xaragua, as wife of the chief of Maguana, and as a warrior battling the first white men to arrive in the West Indies, ravenous for gold.

5) Mary, Queen of Scots, queen without a country

Author

Lasky, Kathryn

Series

Royal diaries

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

c2002

Language

English

Description

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Mary, the young Scottish queen, is sent a diary from her mother in which she records her experiences living at the court of France's King Henry II as she awaits her marriage to Henry's son, Francis.

6) The journal of Douglas Allen Deeds: the Donner Party expedition

Author

Philbrick, Rodman

Series

My name is America

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

2001

Language

English

Description

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Douglas Deeds, a 15-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his travels by wagon train as a member of the ill-fated Donner Party, which became stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846-47.

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1) Weetamoo, heart of the Pocassets

2) Eleanor: crown jewel of Aquitaine

3) Kristina: the girl king

4) Anacaona, Golden Flower

5) Mary, Queen of Scots, queen without a country

6) The journal of Douglas Allen Deeds: the Donner Party expedition