Dear America is a series of historical fiction novels for children published by Scholastic starting in 1996.
Each book is written in the form of a diary of a young woman's life during important events or time periods in American history.
The Dear America series covers a wide range of topics, including: the Pilgrims' journey to the New World, the Salem Witch Trials, the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, western expansion, slavery, immigration, nineteenth-century prairie life, the California Gold Rush of 1849, the Great Depression, Native Americans' experiences, racism, coal mining, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the fight for women's suffrage, the sinking of the RMS Titanic, the Battle of the Alamo, the Vietnam War, and more.
The breadth of historical topics covered in these books through fiction makes the Dear America series a favorite teaching device of history schoolteachers around the country.
New books for 2011 include Like the Willow Tree, Cannons at Dawn (the sequel to The Winter of Red Snow and the first sequel in the series), With the Might of Angels, Behind the Masks, A City Tossed and Broken, and Down the Rabbit Hole.