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** Max, Julie Weiss's brother from ''One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping'', skipped a grade, reads Rilke, attended Vienna University, takes fencing lessons, and plays on a Zionist soccer team.
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** Other examples include Teresa's sister Netta from ''West to a Land of Plenty'', Grace's sister Ruth from ''Survival in the Storm'', and Libby's brother Joe from ''The Great Railroad Race''. Chances are, if the main character has a younger sibling, they are going to be this.
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**[[spoiler: The epilogue totally averts this. As an adult, Maddie gets back in touch with Johnny after high school...and yes, TheyDo.]]
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* UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution: ''The Winter of Red Snow'', ''Love Thy Neighbor'', ''Cannons at Dawn''
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* UsefulNotes/WorldWarII: ''Early Sunday Morning'', ''The Fences Between Us'', ''My Secret War'', ''One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping''
* UsefulNotes/WorldWarII: ''Early Sunday Morning'', ''The Fences Between Us'', ''My Secret War'', ''One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping''
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** ''Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie'' features a young child dying from sampling hemlock mistaken for root vegetables along with a few wagons getting lost in the river.
** ''When Will This Cruel War Be Over?'' has Emma's baby cousin dying from an illness at the end.
** ''A Picture of Freedom'' mentioned that a whole family drowned on their way North, they had several young children.
** ''Dreams of a Golden Country'' mentions a neighbor's young son dying and Zippy's baby brother died after his birth
** ''A Line in the Sand'' mentioned that Lucinda's baby sister died on their way to Texas, her cousin died in an epidemic, and her friend Mittie's little sister died.
** ''When Will This Cruel War Be Over?'' has Emma's baby cousin dying from an illness at the end.
** ''A Picture of Freedom'' mentioned that a whole family drowned on their way North, they had several young children.
** ''Dreams of a Golden Country'' mentions a neighbor's young son dying and Zippy's baby brother died after his birth
** ''A Line in the Sand'' mentioned that Lucinda's baby sister died on their way to Texas, her cousin died in an epidemic, and her friend Mittie's little sister died.
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* CoolUncle: Uncle Martin in ''One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping'' counts as an example that's PromotedToParent. He makes his niece comfortable and tries to cheer her up and teaches her what a "proper cheesecake" looks like and never to have business lunches. Her Aunt Clara counts as a female example due to her introducing Julie into acting and teaching her everything there is to know.
* DeathByChildbirth: The fate of Julie's Cousin Eva in ''One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping''.
** ''One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping'' features several Jewish people being driven to suicide after the Nazis takeover Austria, the most tragic being of a friend of her parents jumping out the hospital window with her newborn baby.
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* InfantImmortality: Often averted and it's tragic.
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** ''A Journey to the New World'' features a few children dying from illnesses like this one little girl who saw her dead Mother right when she died and a friend of Mem Whipple.
** ''One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping'' features a baby dying in his Mother's suicide (she took him with her) and a little boy trying to keep his father from being taken by the Nazis.
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* StigmaticPregnancyEuphemism: Julie, in ''One Eye Laughing, The Other Weeping'', finds some letters from her Cousin Eva. She described having "a condition" and not being angry anymore. Later the housekeeper, Susie, tells Julie that Eva was seeing an older man who abandoned her after it turned out she was pregnant. Eva was sent out to a hotel for her pregnancy and it turned out she died giving birth to a baby that lived for only a few days.
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* SexlessMarriage: In ''One Eye Laughing, The Other Weeping,'' Julie notes that her parents have separate bedrooms and speculates that this is because of her mother's intense migraines.
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* RapeDiscretionShot: In ''One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping'', there is a strong implication that [[spoiler:when Julie's mother was separated from Julie's father and Max, the soldiers gang-raped her]]. When she reappears, her dress is torn, she is completely withdrawn and traumatized [[spoiler:(as it later turns out, to the point of suicide)]] and she refuses to say what actually happened to her to anyone.
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* YouAreWhatYouHate: In ''One Eye Laughing, The Other Weeping'', Julie's Uncle Daniel gets into an argument with Julie's father, during the course of which he actually defends Hitler and claims that Vienna is, in fact getting overrun by Jews. When it's implied that her father reminded him that he's Jewish himself, his response is that "I'm not Jewish! I haven't been for 20 years!"
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* BoomerangBigot: In ''One Eye Laughing, The Other Weeping'', Julie's Uncle Daniel gets into an argument with Julie's father, during the course of which he actually defends Hitler and claims that Vienna is, in fact getting overrun by Jews. When it's implied that her father reminded him that he's Jewish himself, his response is that "I'm not Jewish! I haven't been for 20 years!"
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* DaddysGirl: In ''One Eye Laughing, The Other Weeping," Julie practically hero-worships her father, while her relationship with her mother is strained.
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** Anetka of "A Coal Miner's Bride" also encounters this at one point when one man assaults her, and it is only because her acquaintance Leon Nasevich appears that she is able to escape and subsequently move to America.
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* AttemptedRape: In ''The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow,'' the book comes as close as they can in a book aimed at preteens to implying that one of the soldiers was going to do this to Sarah Nita after she was caught trying to raid corn out of animals' manure at Fort Sumner. He's all of a sudden distracted by the soldier Sarah Nita refers to as "Mica Eyes" calling him out to a different area of the animal pens.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: The ''Dear America'' series is chock full of FamilyUnfriendlyDeath accurate to the time period of each book. For example, the death of the protagonist's love interest in the Titanic diary, and, more traumatically, the multiple deaths that occur along the journey of a girl taking a wagon train out west (including one death from being swept away while crossing a river, and one brutal InfantImmortality aversion when the protagonist mistakes hemlock for an edible root and feeds a bit to another young girl while preparing dinner).
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* FriendToAllLivingThings: Cinda's brother, Lem, from ''A Line in the Sand'' has a pet raccoon, tries to take in a wounded raven, and is repeatedly noted as loving animals.
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* TheWildWest: ''The Great Railroad Race'', ''West To a Land of Plenty'', ''Seeds of Hope'', "Behind the Masks"
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** Miz Lilly in ''A Picture of Freedom'' invokes this when talking to Clotee, telling her that Clotee's mother, Rissa, was her best friend and made her so many beautiful dresses and she'd be more than happy to have Clotee as a favorite if Clotee would just tattle on the slaves.
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''Dear America'' is a series of historical novels for older girls published by Scholastic. The series was originally canceled in 2004 after its thirty-sixth book but was relaunched in September 2010 with a new book and re-releases of three older books. Since the relaunch three new titles (one being a sequel) have come out and some of the older books have gotten new re-releases.
It inspired three spin-off series in the US:
* My Name Is America: ''Dear America's'' [[DistaffCounterpart Spear Counterpart.]]
* My America: A series of trilogies focusing on younger characters.
* Literature/TheRoyalDiaries: Fictional diaries of various historical royal women as girls.
There were also versions produced by several of Scholastic's international branches (see DearCanada), and an HBO miniseries.
Each book is written in the form of a diary of a young woman's life during an important event or time period in American history, ranging from as early as the voyage of the ''Mayflower'' to as recent as the Vietnam War.
Here's the [[http://www.scholastic.com/dearamerica/ official site.]]
Compare to ''AmericanGirl'', another series of historical fiction books starring young girls, aimed at a younger demographic.
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!!Provides Examples Of:
* AcademicAthlete: The book ''With The Might of Angels'' has Dawnie who has the highest grades in the elementary division of her school but more than anything she wants to be part of the All-American Girls Baseball League.
* UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar: ''When Will This Cruel War Be Over?'', ''A Picture of Freedom'', ''A Light in the Storm'', very early ''I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly''
* AmericanDream
* UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution: ''The Winter of Red Snow'', ''Love Thy Neighbor'', ''Cannons at Dawn''
* ArrangedMarriage: In ''A Coal Miner's Bride'' Anetka's hand in marriage was promised by her father to a acquittance in exchange for tickets to bring her and her younger brother to America from Poland.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: In ''My Heart is on the Ground'',about Nannie Little Rose, a Lakota Indian girl who is sent to Carlisle Indian Industrial School, a school meant to teach Indians how to act more "white". Firstly, Nannie probably would not have been given a diary in the first place, which discounts the whole book. But, let's say she was. She would not refer to herself as "Sioux", instead she would use her area or band. Rinaldi also gets many Lakota customs wrong, mainly by using American descriptions of them rather than finding out what actually happened. She even makes up the more "Indian" sounding [[YouNoTakeCandle words]] for Lakota words that already exist, such as "night-middle-made" and "friend-to-go-between-us". Needless to say, actual Lakota [[http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2011/03/review-of-ann-rinaldis-my-heart-is-on.html were less than pleased]].
* BittersweetEnding: Some of the books end with this type of ending, with some of the heroine's friends and family dead or missing. The epilogues also count as well.
* BlackBestFriend: In ''Look to the Hills'' the main character Zettie, though six years younger, is her mistress's loved and trusted companion.
* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: ''My Heart Is on the Ground''
* CivilRightsMovement: ''With the Might of Angels''
* CoolBigSis: the main characters show elements of this if they have younger siblings, and their older sisters are this as well.
* TheColonialPeriod:'' A Journey to the New World'' (1607), ''Standing in the Light'' (1763), and ''Look to the Hills'' (1763).
* ContinuityNod: The narrator of ''Seeds of Hope'' talks about going to live in Oregon City with their aunt Augusta, uncle Charles and cousins Hattie, Bennie, and Jake Campbell who had traveled out to Oregon by wagon from Missouri. (aka the family of the narrator from ''Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie''. Both books were written by Kristiana Gregory)
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Julie's mother in ''One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping'' falls into deep depression and kills herself after the Nazi raid on the family home.]]
* DownerEnding: Some of the epilogues end with this, especially the book ''So Far From Home'', where in the epilogue it is stated that main character dies a few years later of a fever.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: The ''Dear America'' series is chock full of FamilyUnfriendlyDeath accurate to the time period of each book. For example, the death of the protagonist's love interest in the Titanic diary, and, more traumatically, the multiple deaths that occur along the journey of a girl taking a wagon train out west (including one death from being swept away while crossing a river, and one brutal InfantImmortality aversion when the protagonist mistakes hemlock for an edible root and feeds a bit to another young girl while preparing dinner).
** ''So Far from Home'', the one about Irish immigrant mill workers, includes the hair-caught-in-the-machinery scenario.
* FieryRedhead: The main character of ''A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska'' complains about everything about her looks except her red hair. At one point she suddenly remembered that she was her mother's fiery redhead and started yelling at her ungrateful husband with a list of all the things she does for him.
* TheGreatDepression: ''Christmas After All''
* TheGreatestHistoryNeverTold: A lot of the books take place during times and in places that people rarely hear about.
* HistoricalVillainDowngrade: A very obvious example of a whole group being downgraded is in ''My Heart is on the Ground'' by Ann Rinaldi, which makes the white men who took Lakota children to be "reeducated" in the ways of white people seem only like misguided missionaries.
* InnocentInaccurate
* JustFriends: Madeline Beck of ''My Secret War'' has her friend Clara think she is in love with a boy she has started a club with named Johnny, although Maddie refuses to believe it, thinking she is JustFriends with him.
* MamaBear: In ''A Coal Miner's Bride'' Americans were throwing rocks at Anetka and her family. She tried to ignore it until one of the stones hit her step-daughter at which point she says she became a mad woman like a mother cat.
* MayDecemberRomance: One of the key points of ''A Coal Miner's Bride''.
* MexicanAmericanWar: ''Valley of the Moon'' takes place during the early parts of the war.
* NobleSavage: Books set in TheWildWest or the New World often uses this trope.
* PassionateSportsGirl: The book ''With the Might of Angels'' has Dawnie who is teased for playing baseball but the joke's on the boys who tease her because she is proud of it.
* PointOfView: All of the books are written in 1st person narration.
* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: ''My Face to the Wind,'' ''A Light in the Storm,'' and ''Standing in the Light'', and ''My Heart is on the Ground'' all have this.
* RomanAClef: Usually it will recreate things that happened in history, only on a smaller scale and before the actual event happens.
* ScrapbookStory: Every book in the series is in a diary format.
* ShownTheirWork: At the end of each book is "Life In (insert time era here) America" where it shows how [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin life was like in America]] as well as historical background information.
* SignsOfDisrepair: In one of the ''Dear America'' books, the main character's cousin comes from a town in Texas called Heart's Bend, except that the B is missing from the sign at the railway station, so it says Heart's end.
* TheSixties: ''Where Have All the Flowers Gone?''
* TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: ''Where Have All the Flowers Gone?'' which takes place in 1968. While it was written 30 years after that, it's still kind of recent for the series.
* UnreliableNarrator: The books narrator is somewhat unreliable, considering the age and the point of view of the girl.
* UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar: ''Where Have All the Flowers Gone?''
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Each book ends with an epilogue, explaining what happens to the character, her family and her friends (when applicable) after the book ends.
* TheWildWest: ''The Great Railroad Race'', ''West To a Land of Plenty'', ''Seeds of Hope'', "Behind the Masks"
* UsefulNotes/WorldWarI: ''When Christmas Comes Again''
* UsefulNotes/WorldWarII: ''Early Sunday Morning'', ''The Fences Between Us'', ''My Secret War'', ''One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping''
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It inspired three spin-off series in the US:
* My Name Is America: ''Dear America's'' [[DistaffCounterpart Spear Counterpart.]]
* My America: A series of trilogies focusing on younger characters.
* Literature/TheRoyalDiaries: Fictional diaries of various historical royal women as girls.
There were also versions produced by several of Scholastic's international branches (see DearCanada), and an HBO miniseries.
Each book is written in the form of a diary of a young woman's life during an important event or time period in American history, ranging from as early as the voyage of the ''Mayflower'' to as recent as the Vietnam War.
Here's the [[http://www.scholastic.com/dearamerica/ official site.]]
Compare to ''AmericanGirl'', another series of historical fiction books starring young girls, aimed at a younger demographic.
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!!Provides Examples Of:
* AcademicAthlete: The book ''With The Might of Angels'' has Dawnie who has the highest grades in the elementary division of her school but more than anything she wants to be part of the All-American Girls Baseball League.
* UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar: ''When Will This Cruel War Be Over?'', ''A Picture of Freedom'', ''A Light in the Storm'', very early ''I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly''
* AmericanDream
* UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution: ''The Winter of Red Snow'', ''Love Thy Neighbor'', ''Cannons at Dawn''
* ArrangedMarriage: In ''A Coal Miner's Bride'' Anetka's hand in marriage was promised by her father to a acquittance in exchange for tickets to bring her and her younger brother to America from Poland.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: In ''My Heart is on the Ground'',about Nannie Little Rose, a Lakota Indian girl who is sent to Carlisle Indian Industrial School, a school meant to teach Indians how to act more "white". Firstly, Nannie probably would not have been given a diary in the first place, which discounts the whole book. But, let's say she was. She would not refer to herself as "Sioux", instead she would use her area or band. Rinaldi also gets many Lakota customs wrong, mainly by using American descriptions of them rather than finding out what actually happened. She even makes up the more "Indian" sounding [[YouNoTakeCandle words]] for Lakota words that already exist, such as "night-middle-made" and "friend-to-go-between-us". Needless to say, actual Lakota [[http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2011/03/review-of-ann-rinaldis-my-heart-is-on.html were less than pleased]].
* BittersweetEnding: Some of the books end with this type of ending, with some of the heroine's friends and family dead or missing. The epilogues also count as well.
* BlackBestFriend: In ''Look to the Hills'' the main character Zettie, though six years younger, is her mistress's loved and trusted companion.
* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: ''My Heart Is on the Ground''
* CivilRightsMovement: ''With the Might of Angels''
* CoolBigSis: the main characters show elements of this if they have younger siblings, and their older sisters are this as well.
* TheColonialPeriod:'' A Journey to the New World'' (1607), ''Standing in the Light'' (1763), and ''Look to the Hills'' (1763).
* ContinuityNod: The narrator of ''Seeds of Hope'' talks about going to live in Oregon City with their aunt Augusta, uncle Charles and cousins Hattie, Bennie, and Jake Campbell who had traveled out to Oregon by wagon from Missouri. (aka the family of the narrator from ''Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie''. Both books were written by Kristiana Gregory)
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Julie's mother in ''One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping'' falls into deep depression and kills herself after the Nazi raid on the family home.]]
* DownerEnding: Some of the epilogues end with this, especially the book ''So Far From Home'', where in the epilogue it is stated that main character dies a few years later of a fever.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: The ''Dear America'' series is chock full of FamilyUnfriendlyDeath accurate to the time period of each book. For example, the death of the protagonist's love interest in the Titanic diary, and, more traumatically, the multiple deaths that occur along the journey of a girl taking a wagon train out west (including one death from being swept away while crossing a river, and one brutal InfantImmortality aversion when the protagonist mistakes hemlock for an edible root and feeds a bit to another young girl while preparing dinner).
** ''So Far from Home'', the one about Irish immigrant mill workers, includes the hair-caught-in-the-machinery scenario.
* FieryRedhead: The main character of ''A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska'' complains about everything about her looks except her red hair. At one point she suddenly remembered that she was her mother's fiery redhead and started yelling at her ungrateful husband with a list of all the things she does for him.
* TheGreatDepression: ''Christmas After All''
* TheGreatestHistoryNeverTold: A lot of the books take place during times and in places that people rarely hear about.
* HistoricalVillainDowngrade: A very obvious example of a whole group being downgraded is in ''My Heart is on the Ground'' by Ann Rinaldi, which makes the white men who took Lakota children to be "reeducated" in the ways of white people seem only like misguided missionaries.
* InnocentInaccurate
* JustFriends: Madeline Beck of ''My Secret War'' has her friend Clara think she is in love with a boy she has started a club with named Johnny, although Maddie refuses to believe it, thinking she is JustFriends with him.
* MamaBear: In ''A Coal Miner's Bride'' Americans were throwing rocks at Anetka and her family. She tried to ignore it until one of the stones hit her step-daughter at which point she says she became a mad woman like a mother cat.
* MayDecemberRomance: One of the key points of ''A Coal Miner's Bride''.
* MexicanAmericanWar: ''Valley of the Moon'' takes place during the early parts of the war.
* NobleSavage: Books set in TheWildWest or the New World often uses this trope.
* PassionateSportsGirl: The book ''With the Might of Angels'' has Dawnie who is teased for playing baseball but the joke's on the boys who tease her because she is proud of it.
* PointOfView: All of the books are written in 1st person narration.
* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: ''My Face to the Wind,'' ''A Light in the Storm,'' and ''Standing in the Light'', and ''My Heart is on the Ground'' all have this.
* RomanAClef: Usually it will recreate things that happened in history, only on a smaller scale and before the actual event happens.
* ScrapbookStory: Every book in the series is in a diary format.
* ShownTheirWork: At the end of each book is "Life In (insert time era here) America" where it shows how [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin life was like in America]] as well as historical background information.
* SignsOfDisrepair: In one of the ''Dear America'' books, the main character's cousin comes from a town in Texas called Heart's Bend, except that the B is missing from the sign at the railway station, so it says Heart's end.
* TheSixties: ''Where Have All the Flowers Gone?''
* TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: ''Where Have All the Flowers Gone?'' which takes place in 1968. While it was written 30 years after that, it's still kind of recent for the series.
* UnreliableNarrator: The books narrator is somewhat unreliable, considering the age and the point of view of the girl.
* UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar: ''Where Have All the Flowers Gone?''
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Each book ends with an epilogue, explaining what happens to the character, her family and her friends (when applicable) after the book ends.
* TheWildWest: ''The Great Railroad Race'', ''West To a Land of Plenty'', ''Seeds of Hope'', "Behind the Masks"
* UsefulNotes/WorldWarI: ''When Christmas Comes Again''
* UsefulNotes/WorldWarII: ''Early Sunday Morning'', ''The Fences Between Us'', ''My Secret War'', ''One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping''
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