Dear America: The Winter of Red Snow, A Line in the Sand, A Light in the Storm, When Will This Cruel War Be Over?

by Kristiana Gregory, Sherry Garland, Karen Hesse

Box Set includes Four "The Winter of Red The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1777" (ISBN 0590226533, 173 pages) / "A Line in the The Alamo Diary of Lucinda Lawrence, Gonzales, Texas, 1836 (ISBN 0590394665, 201 pages)" / "A Light in the The Civil War Diary of Ameila Martin (ISBN 0590567330, 169 pages)" / "When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Virginia 1864 (0590228625, 156 pages)".

Genres: Historical

699 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1000

About the author

Kristiana Gregory grew up in Manhattan Beach, California, two blocks from the ocean. She's always loved to make up stories [ask her family!], telling her younger siblings whoppers that would leave them wide-eyed and shivering. Her first rejection letter at age ten was for a poem she wrote in class when she was supposed to be doing a math assignment. She's had a myriad of odd jobs: telephone operator, lifeguard, camp counselor, reporter, book reviewer & columnist for the LA Times, and finally author.

Her award-winning books include STALKED, which earned the 2012 Gold Medal for Young Adult Mystery from Literary Classics and is hailed as "historical fiction with a thrilling twist." KIRKUS calls it "an atmospheric confection that will thrill YA readers ... Gregory achieves a realistic, rich atmosphere with insightful details about the immigration process and New York tenements in the early 1900s." Now available on Kindle and in paperback.

JENNY OF THE TETONS [Harcourt] won the Golden Kite Award in 1989 and was the first of two-dozen historical novels for middle grade readers. Several of Kristiana's titles are now available on Kindle including "Curiously Odd Stories: Vol. 1 and Vol. 2" with the celebrated 'Paper Monument', a futuristic book-banning with horrific consequences.

BRONTE'S BOOK CLUB [Holiday House] is set in a town by the sea and is inspired by the girls' book club Kristiana led for several years.

Her most recent title with Scholastic's Dear America series is CANNONS AT DAWN, a sequel to the best-selling THE WINTER OF RED SNOW, which was made into a movie for the HBO Family Channel.

New re-releases in ebooks and paperback on Amazon:
**PRAIRIE RIVER SERIES #1-4
**ORPHAN RUNAWAYS: THE PERILOUS ESCAPE TO BODIE
**CABIN CREEK MYSTERIES #7: THE PHANTOM OF HIDDEN HORSE RANCH
**THE WAITING LIGHT: CLEMENTINE'S STORY -- originally titled "My Darlin' Clementine" [Holiday House] this riveting historical mystery takes place in an Idaho mining camp of 1866, and was Idaho's representative for the 2010 National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Library of Congress.

Kristiana and her husband have two adult sons, and live in Idaho with their two golden retrievers. In her spare time she loves to swim, walk, hike, read, and hang out with friends. She's trying to learn to knit, but isn't yet having much success.

Check out Kristiana's blogs at http://notesfromthesunroom.blogspot.com/ for behind-the-scenes stories about her books, and with photos from her childhood.

Reviews

[Whitney · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love all these books :)

[Rebekah · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked the book because it shows a different perspective from someone who's not in the war.i also liked the book because it's a diary so it doesn't tell you everything,like how Abigail didn't want to tell her diary the note from Lucy on where she is.abigal also has a hard life like the solders do.abigal does solders laundry and solders steal from their barn.