My Name Is America Series
written by multiple authors

call number JF DEAR

A spin-off series of Dear America, Each of the books is a journal of a young man's life during an important event or time period in American history.

The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce:
A Pilgrim boy, Plymouth, 1620
by Ann Rinaldi

Blazing West: The Journal of Augustus Pelletier:
Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804
by Kathryn Lasky

On This Long Journey: The Journal of Jesse Smoke:
A Cherokee Boy, The Trail of Tears, 1838
by Joseph Bruchac

The Journal of Jedediah Barstow:
An Emigrant on the Oregon Trail, Overland, 1845
by Ellen Levine

The Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds:
The Donner Party Expedition, 1846
by Rodman Philbrick

Staking a Claim: The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung:
A Chinese Miner, California, 1852
by Laurence Yep

The Journal of Rufus Rowe:
A Witness to the Battle of Fredricksburg, Bowling Green, Virginia, 1862
by Sid Hite

On Enemy Soil: The Journal of James Edmond Pease:
A Civil War Union Soldier, Virginia, 1863
by Jim Murphy

Until the Last Spike: The Journal of Sean Sullivan:
A Transcontinental Railroad Worker, Nebraska and Points West, 1867
by William Durbin

The Journal of Joshua Loper:
A Black Cowboy, The Chisholm Trail, 1871
by Walter Dean Myers

The Journal of Brian Doyle:
A Greenhorn on an Alaskan Whaling Ship, The Florence, 1874
by Jim Murphy

The Journal of Finn Reardon:
A Newsie, New York City, 1899
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

The Journal of Otto Peltonen:
A Finnish Immigrant, Hibbing, Minnesota, 1905
by William Durbin

The Journal of C.J. Jackson:
A Dust Bowl Migrant, Oklahoma to California, 1935
by William Durbin

The Journal of Ben Uchida:
Citizen 13559, Mirror Lake Internment Camp, California, 1942
by Barry Denenberg

We Were Heroes: The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins:
A World War II Soldier, Normandy, France, 1944
by Walter Dean Myers

Into No Man's Land: The Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty:
United States Marine Corps, Khe Sanh, Vietnam, 1968
by Ellen Emerson White

My America Series
written by multiple authors

call number JF DEAR

A spin-off series of Dear America, My America is a series of fictional diaries of young girls and boys during American history

Elizabeth's Jamestown Colony Diaries
by Patricia Hermes

Our Strange New Land
Season of Promise

Hope's Revolutionary War Diaries
by Kristiana Gregory

Five Smooth Stones
We Are Patriots
When Freedom Comes

Joshua's Oregon Trail Diaries
by Patricia Hermes

Westward to Home
A Perfect Place
The Wild Year

Meg's Prairie Diaries
by Kate McMullan

As Far As I Can See
For This Land
A Fine Start

Corey's Underground Railroad Diaries
by Sharon Dennis Wyeth

Freedom's Wings
Flying Free
Message in the Sky

Virginia's Civil War Diaries
by Mary Pope Osborne

My Brother's Keeper
After the Rain
A Time to Dance

Sofia's Immigrant Diaries
by Kathryn Lasky

Hope in my Heart
Home At Last
An American Spring

A to Z Mysteries series
by Ron Roy

call number JF ROY R.

This early chapter book mystery series follows the adventures of three junior detectives, Donald David "Dink" Duncan, Josh Pinto, and Ruth Rose Hathaway.

The Absent Author
The Bald Bandit
The Canary Caper
The Deadly Dungeon
The Empty Envelope
The Falcon's Feathers
The Goose's Gold
The Haunted Hotel
The Invisible Island
The Jaguar's Jewel
The Kidnapped King
The Lucky Lottery
The Missing Mummy
The Ninth Nugget
The Orange Outlaw
The Panda Puzzle
The Quicksand Question
The Runaway Racehorse
The School Skeleton
The Talking T-Rex
The Unwilling Umpire
The Vampire's Vacation
The White Wolf
The X'ed-Out X-Ray
The Yellow Yacht
The Zombie Zone

Jigsaw Jones Mystery series
by James Preller

call number JF PRELLER J.

Early chapter book readers have a new classroom hero in clever, dependable, puzzle-crazy Jigsaw Jones. With the help of his Top Secret Detective Journal and his ace partner, Mila, Jigsaw is hot on the trail of Hermie the missing hamster.

The Case of Hermie the Missing Hamster
The Case of the Mummy Mystery
The Case of the Stinky Science Project
The Case of the Class Clown
The Case of the Bicycle Bandit
The Case of the Bear Scare
The Case of the Golden Key
The Case of the Rainy-Day Mystery
The Case of the Best Pet Ever
The Case of the Perfect Prank
The Case of the Glow-in-the-dark Ghost
The Case of the Vanishing Painting
The Case of the Double-Trouble Detective
The Case of the Frog-jumping Contest
The Case of the Food Fight
The Case of the Kidnapped Candy
The Case of the Spoiled Rotten Spy
The Case of the Groaning Ghost

Secrets of Dripping Fang series
by Dan Greenburg

call number JF GREENBURG D.

Ten-year-old orphan twins Wally and Cheyenne Shluffmuffin have it bad at Cincinnati's Jolly Days orphanage, but things get much worse when the Mandible sisters offer to share their home in Dripping Fang Forest.

#1 The Onts
#2 Treachery and Betrayal at Jolly Days
#3 The Vampire's Curse
#4 Fall of the House of Mandible
#5 The Shluffmuffin Boy is History
#6 Attack of the Giant Octopus
#7 Please Don't Eat the Children
#8 When Bad Snakes Attack Good Children

Monsters!
by Dotti Enderle

call number JF ENDERLE D.

Malcolm and Dandy are excited by the prospect of Horrorfest at the local movie theater, but are not so thrilled to findthe Wolfman, the Fly, and King Kong have escaped their black-and-white films and are intent on chasing them down.

The monster's ring
by Bruce Coville

call number JF COVILLE B.

Pursued by the bullying Eddie, timid Russell Crannaker stumbles into Mr. Elives' magic shop, where he buys a mysterious ring that allows him to become a monster. Soon Russell finds himself growing bolder as he begins to express his inner monster. But has he become too bold?

What, exactly, is the ring doing to him? And what price will he have to pay if he fails to follow the directions?