Dear America: I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly

ConnorLaCroix

Dear America: I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly | Joyce Hansen

I would rather learn how to be a splendid teacher.

ConnorLaCroix

I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl | Joyce Hansen

The diary format is optimal.

ConnorLaCroix

I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl | Joyce Hansen

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What a good topic for kids to know about. The story is told from the perspective of a freed slave girl, so kids get to know what slavery would have been like from her point of view. It being in the format of a diary makes it even more personal.

BooksTeasAndBookishThings

Dear America: I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly | Joyce Hansen

After I posted my very small collection of these books, the lovely @CrowCAH mailed me her bigger collection (a thank you will be mailed soon 😉), and the lovely @brilliantglow told me about Thriftbooks having a lot of these for very cheap. I ended up getting a welcome code and free shipping because it was over $10 so I spent $30 for 19 books! My collection is definitely getting bigger for my Daughter ❤ Thank you BOTH 😍

CrowCAH Woohoo awesome; looking great! 😊 8y

BooksTeasAndBookishThings @CrowCAH thank you!!! I am so excited, I have almost all of the ones I really loved. I am just lacking two of those and now I have about half of the entire collection ❤ 8y

brilliantglow Yay! That is some awesome savings! I love Thriftbooks.com especially since you can choose the quality of used book you buy too. Plus wishlist instant alerts for when they get books in stock is amazing! Especially if you're waiting "patiently" for a specific book or edition?❤ 8y

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BooksTeasAndBookishThings @brilliantglow Yes! I have some emails telling me my others are available and I want them NOW lol but it is so great ❤ I really appreciate the heads up 😊 8y

brilliantglow No problem! Love to help out a fellow book lover. ❤ 8y

BooksTeasAndBookishThings @brilliantglow 😘 8y

Cityofamber I use to love these 💖 I still have some 😊 8y

CrowCAH @BooksTeasAndBookishThings wow, it's really grown fast! Perhaps I should put a call out there for P&P books lol 8y

BooksTeasAndBookishThings @Amberboston1 I love them, too! I was really excited to add more to my measly 5 lol 8y

BooksTeasAndBookishThings @CrowCAH I actually did want to ask you if you have one in particular, but I kind of wanted it to be a surprise. So you tell me... show you in case you have it, or surprise and risk it? 8y

CrowCAH @BooksTeasAndBookishThings well, I do know you've seen the collection on Facebook, so you can surprise me! ☺ 8y

BooksTeasAndBookishThings @CrowCAH okay, I didn't see this one in there, but it is kind of different so wanted to make sure 😊 8y

CrowCAH @BooksTeasAndBookishThings if the cover art is different, say they added a border, but it's the same pic, then I count it as different. Can't wait to see it! 8y

BooksTeasAndBookishThings @CrowCAH okay 😊 excited to send to you ❤ 8y

BethM I read a bunch of these as a kid and always enjoyed them! 8y

BooksTeasAndBookishThings @BethM such a great way to introduce an era/historical event to kids while also getting them to start reading memoir-type books. To this day I love reading them ❤ 8y

minkyb My daughter, 29 today, loved these! 8y

BooksTeasAndBookishThings @minkyb I am 29, too! Tell her she has great taste 😉 they really are incredibly affordable at thriftbooks.com 8y

minkyb I am sitting here trying to figure out what we did with ours lol. They must be boxed up somewhere in this house. Her apartment is way too small for all her books. I have had excellent luck with Thrift Books since I discovered them. I like that you earn bonus $. 8y

BooksTeasAndBookishThings @minkyb I had a few more at one point but they were boxed up with some of my Nancy Drew books as well. It got lost in one of my many moves, but my missing ones from the ND collection have since been replaced one or two at a time. So... now it is replacing the ones I lost and completing it with others I didn't have ❤ 8y

BooksTeasAndBookishThings And yes! I love that ❤ 8y

PrincessLibrarian This makes my heart happy! ☺️ 8y

Reviewsbylola That is amazing!! I am collecting these for my daughters too. I always add one to my thrift books orders and I have picked some up at library sales too. The one about Patience Whipple was always my favorite growing up. 8y

BooksTeasAndBookishThings @PrincessLibrarian mine, too! 😍 8y

BooksTeasAndBookishThings @Reviewsbylola the one tagged in this, My Secret War, Winter of Red Snow, Voyage on the Great Titanic, Anastasia, Mary Queen of Scots, and one I cannot remember the title, but I remember the plot... I just have to keep looking. That one and Winter of Red Snow are next on my list 😊 8y

Chelsibno OMG! I loved these series when I was a kid! I have seven of them on my shelf right now. My fifth grade teacher actually gave me a set of tapes of the HBO series as a reward for working hard to improve my math skills. I still own them, even though I no longer own a VCR. 8y

BooksTeasAndBookishThings @Chelsibno how cool is that??? Maybe they converted them into DVD's? Might be worth looking into for Kaysen 😍 I love it when teachers encourage reading like that ❤❤❤ 8y

BethM @Chelsibno I didn't know they made a show! 8y

Chelsibno @BooksTeasAndBookishThings @BethM You can find both seasons on Amazon Video for $6.99 each, if you're interested. 8y

BooksTeasAndBookishThings @Chelsibno I am! Thank you ❤ 8y

BethM @Chelsibno is that a streaming service? 8y

Chelsibno @BethM Yes, it's a streaming service that allows you to instantly watch, rent, or buy videos via Amazon. 8y

raelaschoenherr I loved these so much! 8y

BooksTeasAndBookishThings @raelaschoenherr me, too! So excited to keep it growing 😊 8y

raelaschoenherr I'm working on my collection too :) 8y

BooksTeasAndBookishThings @raelaschoenherr definitely post pictures as you get them ❤️ 8y

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MKbookworm

Dear America: I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly | Joyce Hansen

Books kids read growing up are impotant in shaping them and diversity in kids lit is sorely lacking. Here are a selection of my Dear America books, a series I loved growing up. History has long been a favorite so most of my books from childhood are of that genre but I also want to note that while it is important to see how far we've come, racism and other isms are,sadly, very much alive. #weneeddiversebooks #seasonsreadings2016 @RealLifeReading

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rachelm

Dear America: I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly | Joyce Hansen

#FunFriday books: Favorite Middle Grade:
Dear America was my stepping stone between American Girls and Ann Rinaldi -- all together these books instilled a love of history, well, herstory, really. #FunFridayPhoto

Reviewsbylola Patience Whipple was my favorite. I have already started collecting these for my 2 and 4 year olds. 😂 8y

MeganMarieWrites I loved these as a kid! These books are the reason I'm such a history buff now as an adult! 8y

abbiereadsbooks Oh my gosh, I mustve read Voyage on the Great Titanic at least 100 times as a kid. Loved this series! 8y

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queerbookreader Omg did you read the princess ones? Like with Catherine the Great and Marie Antoinette, and I think the princess of Hawaii had one too 8y

rachelm @lemonlime799 um, no! I might have to go check those out now... 8y

courtney Omg I was obsessed with the Titanic when I was little and I think I also read that one a hundred times like @abbiereadsbooks 😂🚢 8y

MeganB @lemonlime799 I was OBSESSED with the princess ones! They had the gold edge pages right? I actually sent my mom to three library locations trying to get my hands on Cleopatra's when I was sick one day in fifth grade 😂😂 8y

queerbookreader @MeganB Yes!! The gold edges made me feel so fancy reading them! Catherine's was my favorite ack I need to get all of them out and reread them 8y

bookandcat THESE WERE THE BEST!! 8y

abbiereadsbooks @lemonlime799 I loved those ones! There an Anastasia which is obviously amazing. 8y

queerbookreader @abbiereadsbooks Omg I remember getting to the end of that book and I was like "I know what happens next oh god oh god" I was super stressed out 8y

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