Dear America

Mem has just arrived in the New World. With the help of the American Native Squanto, she endures her first year at Plymouth Colony.

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.

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.

A Russian-Jewish immigrant girl lives with her family in a tenement on the Lower East Side. She strives to learn English and become an actress.

During the Revolutionary War, young Abby Stewart befriends Martha Washington and helps Revolutionary soldiers in Valley Forge, PA.