
Based on the best-selling Scholastic books; Dear America features the rich and spirited stories of young women at various turning points in history.
TV-Y7 • Drama, Family • Series • 1999 • 2 seasons
Created by: Deborah Forte

S1 E1 - A Picture of Freedom
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 • 30m

S1 E2 - Dreams in the Golden Country
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 • 30m

S1 E3 - A Journey to the New World
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 • 30m

S1 E4 - Standing in the Light
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 • 30m

S1 E5 - So Far From Home
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 • 30m

S1 E6 - The Winter of Red Snow
During the Revolutionary War, young Abby Stewart befriends Martha Washington and helps Revolutionary soldiers in Valley Forge, PA.
Nov 6, 1999 • 30m

S1 E7 - Color Me Dark
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 • 30m

S1 E8 - A Line in the Sand
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 • 30m

S1 E9 - When Will This Cruel War Be Over?
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 • 30m
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Dear America
Based on the best-selling Scholastic books; Dear America features the rich and spirited stories of young women at various turning points in history.
TV-Y7 • Drama, Family • TV Series • 1999