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Lasky, Kathryn
A JOURNEY TO THE NEW WORLD : THE DIARY OF REMEMBER PATIENCE WHIPPLE
(DEAR AMERICA SERIES)
New York : Scholastic, 1996.
IL 5-8
ISBN 059050214X
This is a fictionalized diary of 12 year old Remember Patience Whipple. Remember is traveling with her family aboard the Mayflower in 1620. The passengers are excited about beginning a new life in a brand new country. The diary follows the crossing -- two months of bad food, unfit drinking water, vicious storms and plenty of boredom. Find out what life was like on the voyage and in the new world.
SUBJECTS:     Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) -- Fiction
                        Massachusetts -- History -- New Plymouth, 1620-1691 -- Fiction
                        Mayflower (Ship) -- Fiction
                        Voyages and travels -- Fiction
                        Diaries -- Fiction

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