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Romantic Conversationalist
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 Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 3:18 am
Did anyone read any of these books? I know they were somewhat popular several years ago. Someone gave me a Dear America that took place on the Titanic, and I read pieces of others in the bookstore.
For those of you who are unfamiliar, the books were fictionalized accounts of young people in various historical periods. The Dear America series (which was written in diary entry form) was aimed at girls and the My Name Is America series was aimed at boys. In a way, they were sort of like the adolescent version of the American Girl books.
I like them because they're personal stories about teenagers, but set in historical periods and therefore full of facts presented in a memorable way. They did for me in adolescence the same thing the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (T.V. show, not the novelizations) did for me as a child: made history a personal story (isn't that what history is anyway?) that could stick in my brain.
So, what are some of your opinions about the series?
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Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 6:50 am
Seeing as how I'm a fast reader, they're just too short! Things start to get interesting, then suddenly it's done, and I'm stuck with the historical notes and having to try to image what happens next.
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Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 4:53 pm
-sigh-
I used to love reading those. Then one day, I just decided to give them all (I had many, many of them) to the local library.
So, no more collections.
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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 10:46 pm
When I was younger I read several of them. I even have some around my house that I'm planning on reading now. Although I have other ways of reading historical fiction, it was really one of the series that started my love for historical books. I heard they don't make them anymore, and I looked in the children's section and was unable to find any. Do you think they decided to retire the series, or they just didn't sell very well? I hope it's not the latter. :/
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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 12:45 pm
As far as I know, there are no new ones being made, though Scholastic does still have them in stock--I just have to purchase some replacement copies a few months ago for my library. Many libraries, if they have a limited budget, may not opt to replace worn-out copies, as the demand seems to have gone down (and they wear out fast--the binding quality stinks).
There is also a series of princess diaries (like Elizabeth I, Marie Antoinette, etc.) from when they were young teens. Very similar format, also published by Scholastic.
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Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:00 am
Just as addendum to the previous post: I checked, and the series I was referring to is called "Royal Diaries". All the protagonists are historical female royalty, and not all European. I read an interesting one about a seventh-century Korean princess, and I know there are princesses from Native American, South American, Indian, and Japanese historical periods.
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 10:00 pm
I've read almost all of the Dear America and Royal Diaries books. They made me a historical fiction fan :]
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Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 8:02 pm
i remember reading these books they were good
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Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 9:45 am
I read a couple. My favorite one was about an army soldier at Khe Sanh during the Vietnam War.
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