Osborne, Mary Pope. <br/><br/>
My brother's keeper / 
by Mary Pope Osborne. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Scholastic,  2000. 
 - 109 p. :  ill. ;  19 cm. 
 - My America .
 - Virginia's diary ;  [1] .
 - Osborne, Mary Pope.  Virginia's diary ;  bk. 1. .
<br/><br/> "Virginia Dickens is a fictional character created by the author and her diary is a work of fiction"--Copyright page. 
<br/><br/> Virginia Dickens is an ordinary nine-year-old girl growing upin the sleepy farm town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 1863. She worries about her father and her brother Jed, who have gone to hide the family's horses from the Confederates. Virginia is left behind for her own safety, but she ends up being caught up in the battle and witnesses many horrifying events while growing up. I am older than the level that this book was intended for, but I still enjoyed it. This is a good book for fans of the American Girls series (which I liked when I was younger). It teaches kids about the events of the Civil War through the diary of a young girl readers can relate to.  In 1863, as the Civil War approaches her quiet town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, nine-year-old Virginia records in a journal the horrible things she witnesses before, during, and after the Battle of Gettysburg. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0439153077 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>00020200  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Englischliteratur<br/>children book<br/>Sezessionskrieg<br/>Fiction<br/>Civil War<br/>America<br/>Diary<br/>Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863--Juvenile fiction.<br/>Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863--Fiction.<br/>Diaries--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PZ7.O81167  / Mt 2000 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>[Fic]