Dear America (1999)
Based on the best-selling Scholastic books; Dear America features the rich and spirited stories of young women at various turning points in history.
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Episode 1 - A Picture of Freedom
Release Date: 1999-03-14In the pre-Civil War South, a young slave girl secretly learns how to read and write. She determines to help and teach other slaves.
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Episode 2 - Dreams in the Golden Country
Release Date: 1999-04-01A 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.
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Episode 3 - A Journey to the New World
Release Date: 1999-05-06Mem, 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.
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Episode 4 - Standing in the Light
Release Date: 1999-09-12A 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.
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Episode 5 - So Far From Home
Release Date: 1999-10-02Mary, 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.
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Episode 6 - The Winter of Red Snow
Release Date: 1999-11-06During the Revolutionary War, young Abby Stewart befriends Martha Washington and helps Revolutionary soldiers in Valley Forge, PA.
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Episode 7 - Color Me Dark
Release Date: 2000-02-07A young African-American girl moves north with her family to Chicago -- the land of opportunity -- hoping to escape the racism of the rural south.
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Episode 8 - A Line in the Sand
Release Date: 2000-04-10In this fictional account of Texan history, a young pioneer girl writes in her diary of the fight for freedom against the Mexicans.
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Episode 9 - When Will This Cruel War Be Over?
Release Date: 2000-07-05Living in the Confederate South during the Civil War, a young Confederate girl faces a dilemma when a Union soldier is injured at her doorstep.