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this is from a real diary by a 13-year-old girl in 1870. teenage girls are awesome and they’ve always been that way.

Read this – oh my goodness, this girl was wonderful.

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DS HOOBLER, DOROTHY Real American Girls Tell Their Own Stories; by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler. Atheneum, 1999 104p illus. with photographs ISBN 0-689-82083-6 $12.95 R Gr. 4-6 Through excerpts from letters, diaries, and memoirs, readers discover the child- hoods of American girls from a variety of class, cultural, and historical perspec- tives. The voices of twenty-four girls span the eighteenth through twentieth century. Arranged in brief topical sections, “Best Friends,” “School Days,” “In Trouble,” “Just Having Fun,” “Boys,” and “Becoming a Woman,” the excerpts come from primary sources, mostly from the mid to late 1800s. Many readers will recognize Louisa May Alcott and Red Cross founder Clara Barton, but most of the names will be unfamiliar, such as the Winnebago Mountain Wolf Woman or Helen MacKnight, one of the first women doctors in the U.S. The excerpts are humor- ous, distinctive, and implicitly feminist, while covering topics and feelings that will resonate with contemporary readers: “Have come across such a glorious book called ‘Boys Play Book of Science.’ Am going to read it through and see if whether ain’t some experiments Bess and I can try. Won’t it be jolly if we really can? But it takes money money money even for the privilege of blowing one’s self up”- from the diary of Martha Carey Thomas, 1870. The writings range from the girlish voice of a nine-year-old, to Mountain Wolf Woman’s poignant recounting of her first menstruation, to an incident of prejudice recalled by an Asian Ameri- can teenager. The best excerpts are diary entries which engage readers through the immediacy of first person and the specificity of time and place: “I don’t want to be alive when the year 2000 comes, for my Bible teacher says the world is coming to an end then, and perhaps sooner.” Black-and-white photos (unfortunately uncaptioned) and a list of credits accompany the text. This book should find readers among the fans of the American Girl or Dear America series and can serve as a springboard to history and journal writing.