cover image Elizabeth's Jamestown Colony Diaries: Book One: Our Strange New Land

Elizabeth's Jamestown Colony Diaries: Book One: Our Strange New Land

Patricia Hermes. Scholastic, $4.99 (109pp) ISBN 978-0-439-36898-8

Now available in paperback, Scholastic's My America series gives primary-grade readers a firsthand feel for the events that shaped the nation. Our Strange New Land: Elizabeth's Jamestown Colony Diary by Patricia Hermes; Five Smooth Stones: Hope's Revolutionary War Diary by Kristiana Gregory; Freedom's Wings: Corey's Underground Railroad Diary by Sharon Dennis Wyeth; and My Brother's Keeper: Virginia's Civil War Diary by Mary Pope Osborne each inaugurate ongoing story lines. (May)