Journey to the New World

Journey to the New World

The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple

Dear America
by Kathryn Lasky
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Hardcover, 173 pages
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Sincerelyornot of Oregon, 10/7/2011
Probably the best parts of this series are written by Katherine Lasky. She wrote some of the American Girls books too, I believe. The style is clean, lots of anecdotal family scenes with historical details woven seamlessly into the background. Of course, being a secular author, she includes a detailed description of the death penalty for heretics in England at the time. It really happened, but this might be a good read-aloud-with-edits for those with younger children. Or just tear out one page and call it good, like I did. Very good historical fiction intro to the early American immigrants.