My Name Is America is series of fictional journals published by Scholastic. It was the first spin-off of the popular Dear America series of historical fiction books. It began in 1998 with The Journal of William Thomas Emerson and was cancelled in 2004 along with Dear America. The series was relaunched in March 2012 with a new edition of The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins, re-titled We Were Heroes.
Unlike Dear America, each book in My Name Is America focused on a male character. However, the series has featured similar topics, such as racism and immigration. Many of the books were set during a war, including the American Revolution, the American Civil War, and World War II.
Series
Original
Relaunch
Cover | No. | Title | Author | Published | ISBN |
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1 | We Were Heroes | Walter Dean Myers | March 2012[20] | 9780545398893 | |
2 | Into No Man's Land | Ellen Emerson White | June 2012[21] | 9780545398886 | |
3 | On Enemy Soil | Jim Murphy | September 2012[22] | 9780545398879 | |
4 | A True Patriot | Barry Denenberg | December 2012[23] | 9780545398909 | |
5 | Down to the Last Out | Walter Dean Myers | January 2013[24] | 9780545530507 | |
6 | Until the Last Spike | William Durbin | August 2013[25] | 9780545530804 | |
7 | Staking a Claim | Laurence Yep | December 2013[26] | 9780545576666 | |
8 | On This Long Journey | Joseph Bruchac | January 2014[27] | 9780545530866 | |
9 | Blazing West | Kathryn Lasky | February 2014[28] | 9780545530842 |
References
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/My-Name-America-Journal-Revolutionary/dp/0590313509/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Journal-James-Edmond-Pease-Virginia/dp/059043814X/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/My-Name-America-Journal-Joshua/dp/0590026917/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Journal-Scott-Pendalton-Collins-Soldier/dp/0439050138/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/My-Name-America-Sullivan-Transcontinental/dp/0439049946/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Journal-Ben-Uchida-Citizen-Internment/dp/0590485318/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Journal-Wong-Ming-Chung-Chinese-California/dp/0590386077/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/My-Name-America-Journal-Jonathan/dp/0590510789/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Journal-Augustus-Pelletier-Expedition-America/dp/0590684892/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/My-Name-America-Peltonen-Immigrant/dp/043909254X/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/My-Name-America-Journal-Birmingham/dp/0439095034/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/My-Name-America-Journal-Cherokee/dp/0439121973/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/My-Name-America-Journal-Expedition/dp/0439216001/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/My-Name-America-Journal-Jackson/dp/0439153069/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/My-Name-America-Journal-Flaherty/dp/0439148901/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Journal-Jedediah-Barstow-Emigrant-America/dp/0439063108/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Journal-Finn-Reardon-newsie-America/dp/0439188946/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/My-Name-America-Journal-Fredricksburg/dp/0439353645/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Journal-Boy-Al-Greenhorn-Florence/dp/0439078148/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/We-Were-Heroes-Journal-Pendleton/dp/0545398894/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Journal-Patrick-Seamus-Flaherty-Vietnam/dp/0545398886/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Enemy-Soil-Journal-Edmond-Soldier/dp/0545398878/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/True-Patriot-Journal-William-Revolutionary/dp/0545398908/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Journal-Biddy-Owens-Negro-Leagues/dp/0545530504/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Journal-Sullivan-Transcontinental-Railroad-Nebraska/dp/0545530806/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Staking-Journal-Ming-Chung-Chinese-California/dp/0545530822/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Journal-Jesse-Cherokee-America/dp/0545530865/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Blazing-Journal-Augustus-Pelletier-Expedition/dp/0545530849/
See also
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