

Based on the best-selling Scholastic books; Dear America features the rich and spirited stories of young women at various turning points in history.
Deborah Forte
HBO
12
30 min

In the pre-Civil War South, a young slave girl secretly learns how to read and write. She determines to help and teach other slaves.
Mar 14, 1999

A Russian Jewish immigrant girl lives with her family in a tenement on the Lower East Side. She strives to learn English and pursue her dream of acting.
Apr 1, 1999

Mem, a 12-year-old Pilgrim, has just arrived in the New World. With the help of an American Indian, she endures her first year at Plymouth Colony.
May 6, 1999

A young Quaker girl captured by an Indian tribe falls in love with a handsome warrior and wonders if she will be able to return to her old life.
Sep 12, 1999

Mary, a teenage immigrant from Ireland, finds that working in a mill in Lowell, Massachusetts is not what she'd envisioned as new life in America.
Oct 2, 1999

During the Revolutionary War, young Abby Stewart befriends Martha Washington and helps Revolutionary soldiers in Valley Forge, PA.
Nov 6, 1999

A young African-American girl moves north with her family to Chicago -- the land of opportunity -- hoping to escape the racism of the rural south.
Feb 7, 2000

In this fictional account of Texan history, a young pioneer girl writes in her diary of the fight for freedom against the Mexicans.
Apr 10, 2000

Living in the Confederate South during the Civil War, a young Confederate girl faces a dilemma when a Union soldier is injured at her doorstep.
Jul 5, 2000