A PC game titled, Dear America: Friend to Friend based on the books was released in 2000. Nine of the books were adapted into short, educational films in 19. Hardcovers of the earlier books have a ribbon inserted to be used as bookmark, but are not included in the later editions. Other topics in the series include slavery, immigration, the American Revolution, several wars (including the American Civil War, World War I, and World War II), and the Great Depression. The time periods range from the landing at Plymouth Rock in 1620 to the Vietnam War in 1968. A Journey to the New World and Hear My Sorrow were also the first and last books in the relaunch.Įach book in Dear America focuses on fictional female protagonist during various time periods in America. The series was relaunched in the fall of 2010, before ending around January 2014. The series began in 1996 with Kathryn Lasky's A Journey to the New World, until the cancellation in 2004 after Hear My Sorrow. Dear America is a series of historical fiction novels published by Scholastic.
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