Annotation
Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind.
Characters
| Name | Love, Nellie Lee |
| Gender | Girl |
| Occupation | Student |
| Trait | African American |
| Genre | Fiction Juvenile Historical Sociological |
| Topics | Diaries African Americans Racism Southern life Community life Racial identity Racial differences Racial superiority Personal growth |
| Setting | Tennessee Chicago, Illinois Illinois |
| Series | ||
| Early 20th century: dear America series | ||
| 1 | Hear my sorrow | |
| 2 | Voyage on the great Titanic | |
| 3 | Color me dark | |
| Dear America series | ||
| 1 | A Journey to the New World | |
| 2 | The Winter of red snow | |
| 3 | When will this cruel war be over? | |
| 4 | A Picture of freedom | |
| 5 | Across the wide and lonesome prairie | |
| 6 | So far from home | |
| 7 | I Thought my soul would rise and fly | |
| 8 | West to a land of plenty | |
| 9 | Dreams in the golden country | |
| 10 | Standing in the light | |
| 11 | Voyage on the great Titanic | |
| 12 | A Line in the sand | |
| 13 | My Heart is on the ground | |
| 14 | The Great railroad race | |
| 15 | A Light in the storm | |
| 16 | The Girl who chased away sorrow | |
| 17 | A Coal miner's bride | |
| 18 | Color me dark | |
| 19 | One eye laughing, the other weeping | |
| 20 | My Secret war | |
| 21 | Valley of the moon | |
| 22 | Seeds of hope | |
| 23 | Christmas after all | |
| 24 | Early Sunday morning | |
| 25 | My face to the wind | |
| 26 | Where have all the flowers gone? | |
| 27 | A Time for courage | |
| 28 | Mirror, mirror on the wall | |
| 29 | Survival in the storm | |
| 30 | When Christmas comes again | |
| 31 | Land of the buffalo bones | |
| 32 | Love thy neighbor | |
| 33 | All the stars in the sky | |
| 34 | Look to the hills | |
| 35 | I walk in dread | |
| 36 | Hear my sorrow | |
| 37 | The Fences between us | |
| 38 | Like the willow tree | |
| 39 | Cannons at dawn | |
| 40 | With the might of angels | |
| 41 | Behind the masks | |
| 42 | Down the rabbit hole | |