History YMMV / DearAmerica

** In ''A City Tossed And Broken'', Minnie unwittingly finds herself posing as Lily Sump, the rich girl she was acting as a maid to. This could have formed the basis for an interesting story where Minnie finds herself living Lily's life, but instead it becomes a near-insignificant piece of a larger arc, and her cover is blown after a few days anyway.

** In ''A City Tossed And Broken'', Minnie unwittingly finds herself posing as Lily Sump, the rich girl she was acting as a maid to. This could have made for an intriguing sort of RagsToRiches story in which Minnie ends up essentially becoming Lily for an extended period of time, but instead it becomes a near-insignificant piece of a larger arc, and her cover is blown after a few days anyway.

** Some believe that ''The Fences Between Us'' would have been better if the POV character was Betty Sato instead of Piper, due to Betty’s potential in providing a first-hand account of the racism and interment and Piper’s BrattyTeenageDaughter tendencies making her unlikeable at times. It would also have given the series some much-needed Asian-American representation; as of this writing, not a single book has an Asian protagonist (in contrast to the ''My Name is America'' series, which has a Japanese-American protagonist in ''The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559'').

** Anekta has to endure a loveless marriage before being widowed and not only has to raise three young girls by herself, she also has to deal with the debt her husband left behind.

** Some believe that ''The Fences Between Us'' would have been better if the POV character was Betty Sato instead of Piper, due to Betty’s potential in providing a first hand account of the racism and interment and Piper’s BrattyTeenageDaughter tendencies making her unlikeable at times.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Cousin Rachel from ''When Will This Cruel War Be Over?''. During the book, she displays erratic behavior, much of it involving boys and their evil. This led some readers to believe that she was a WomanScorned, or assaulted or perhaps had a love that ended badly. Others believed she was getting involved in women’s rights. The epilogue reveals.....she had a nervous breakdown, with the cause unknown. Very anticlimactic.
** Some believe that ''The Fences Between Us'' would have been better if the POV character was Betty Sato instead of Piper.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Cousin Rachel from ''When Will This Cruel War Be Over?''. During the book, she displays erratic behavior, much of it involving boys and their evil. This led some readers to believe that she was a WomanScorned, or assaulted or perhaps had a love that ended badly. Others believed she was getting involved in women’s rights. The epilogue reveals.....she had a nervous breakdown, with the cause unknown. Very anticlimactic.

* EsotericHappyEnding: ''My Heart Is On The Ground'' [[spoiler:tries to portray Nannie playing a Pilgrim character in the school’s Thanksgiving play as a happy ending, but Native reviewers have pointed out that it comes across as a DownerEnding, as Nannie has been brainwashed to accept white customs over her indigenous people and roots.]]

** In another scene in ''Hear My Sorrow'', Angela learns that her friend Clara is being set up with a man who is a grocer, and is happy for her because Clara will be able to leave factory work to work alongside her husband. [[spoiler:Clara dies in the Triangle fire.]]

* HateSink: Most of the white characters in ''With The Might Of Angels'' are racist and abusive jerks, with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

*** Her friend Eva doubly qualifies, since she not only endures, but exceeds all expectations and [[spoiler: becomes a singer and masseuse.]]

* GirlsNeedRoleModels: These books inspired a generation of female history nerds.

* GirlsNeedRoleModels: These books inspired a generation of female history nerds.