A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620
by Kathryn Lasky
Dear America Collections (Dear America: Colonial Times, 1620), Dear America Re-issue - Publication Order (1), Dear America - Publication Order (1), My Story (UK) (1620), Dear America (1620. Colonial Times: Mayflower/Plimoth Colony), My Story: Girls (1620), My Story (1620)
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Twelve-year-old Mem presents a diary account of the trip she and her family made on the Mayflower in 1620 and their first year in the New World.Tags
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Twelve-year-old Remember Patience Whipple ("Mem" for short) has just arrived in the New World with her parents after a grueling 65-day journey on the Mayflower. Mem has an irrepressible spirit, and leaps headfirst into life in her new home. Despite harsh conditions, Mem is fearless. She helps to care for the sick and wants more than anything to meet and befriend a Native American.
Twelve-year-old Remember Patience Whipple ("Mem" for short) has just arrived in the New World with her parents after a grueling 65-day journey on the Mayflower. Mem has an irrepressible spirit, and leaps headfirst into life in her new home. Despite harsh conditions, Mem is fearless. She helps to care for the sick and wants more than anything to meet and befriend a Native American.
This is the story of Remember Patience Whipple,told by means of her diary, day by day. It starts when Rem. and her family are on the Mayflower on their way to the New World. We learn about the sea sickness most of the passengers suffer to the Plimoth(her spelling) Settlement hardships and deaths.
While I read this book,I was transported to the Mayflower and the New World. Rem's writing was very easy to read and very discriptive. I felt her pain and her excitment.
This is a perfect book to introduce any thing from the Mayflower to the early English settlers, to young children's experirnces in the New World, to students.
While I read this book,I was transported to the Mayflower and the New World. Rem's writing was very easy to read and very discriptive. I felt her pain and her excitment.
This is a perfect book to introduce any thing from the Mayflower to the early English settlers, to young children's experirnces in the New World, to students.
Reviewed July 2005
Another charming Dear America book "written" by a 12 year old girl traveling on the Mayflower. I learn so much whenever I read these books. Amazing to think about the courage needed to travel so far with death everywhere. Large amounts of people died around Remember, I guess that was what life was like in those times, sickness, child birth and injuries could all mean death. Sad that when these people came to America they came to escape government telling them how to worship, and ended up being so intolerant of people wanting to worship differently in their settlement. They felt they were more privy to the knowledge of God. They tried to convert the people they found in America. I hope this child learned the ways of show more the Indians, how to swim and enjoy her childhood, but I bet she didn't.
16-2005 show less
Another charming Dear America book "written" by a 12 year old girl traveling on the Mayflower. I learn so much whenever I read these books. Amazing to think about the courage needed to travel so far with death everywhere. Large amounts of people died around Remember, I guess that was what life was like in those times, sickness, child birth and injuries could all mean death. Sad that when these people came to America they came to escape government telling them how to worship, and ended up being so intolerant of people wanting to worship differently in their settlement. They felt they were more privy to the knowledge of God. They tried to convert the people they found in America. I hope this child learned the ways of show more the Indians, how to swim and enjoy her childhood, but I bet she didn't.
16-2005 show less
This is one of those excellent crossover books that was written for children but equally enjoyable for adults. The social History of the 1600's is well expressed and you are able to gain a quick snapshot which would not be so easily gained from a historical tomb.
Remember Patience Whipple, called Mem, is a bit frightened at the thought of the New World her family is sailing to on the Mayflower. She hears tales of strange "feathered people" who will attack the settlers. But she has more immediate concerns - the dreadful Billington boys, who mercilessly tease Mem and her friend Hummy, the ever present seasickness, and the daily boredom during the long, tedious sea voyage. But once she arrives in the New World, things become even worse. During the long, cold first winter at Plymouth, many settlers become sick and die. Mem is frightened that her family might be next. When spring comes, she thinks they are safe - until her mother falls ill and dies. Can Mem find the strength and courage to go on show more without her mother? And can she come to accept her future stepmother, quiet, sad Mistress Potts? What I liked best about this book is that it told what a young girl who sailed on the Mayflower and lived at Plymouth Colony might have thought and done. In making the main character a young girl, the author brought the history to life, and I really like the fictional diary format used in this series - it makes you feel really close to the characters. show less
Ok, so this is a children's book, and I bought it by accident, but it's still really interesting. I know very little about the Pilgrim Fathers and their arrival in the New World. Whilst this isn't exactly an in depth tome of the events and their repercussions, it does give a flavour of the experiences of those that travelled and settled in Plymoth.
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Kathryn Lasky was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on June 24, 1944, and knew she wanted to be a writer from the time she was ten. She majored in English in college and after graduation wrote for various magazines and taught. Her first book, I Have Four Names for My Grandfather, was published while she was teaching. She has written more than seventy show more books for children and young adults on everything from historical fiction to picture books and nonfiction books including the Dear America books and the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series. Many of her books are illustrated with photographs by her husband, Christopher Knight. She has received many awards for her titles including Sugaring Time which was a Newberry Honor Book; The Night Journey which won the National Jewish Book Award for Children; Pageant which was an ALA Notable Children's book; and Beyond the Burning Time which was an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. She has also received the Washington Post's Children's Book Guild Award for her contribution to children's nonfiction. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Dear America Collections
78 works (Dear America: Colonial Times, 1620)
Dear America Re-issue - Publication Order
17 works (1)
Dear America - Publication Order
36 works (1)
My Story (UK)
59 works (1620)
Dear America
43 works (1620. Colonial Times: Mayflower/Plimoth Colony)
My Story: Girls
31 works (1620)
My Story
224 works (1620)
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Gallimard jeunesse, Mon histoire (1620-1621)
Folio junior, Mon histoire (1827)
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- Canonical title
- A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620
- Original title
- A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620
- Original publication date
- 1996-09 (1e édition originale américaine, Scolastic, Inc, New York)) (1e édition originale américaine, Scolastic, Inc, New York); 2006-04-06 (1e traduction et édition française, Mon histoire, Gallimard jeunesse) (1e traduction et édition française, Mon histoire, Gallimard jeunesse); 2018-08-16 (Nouvelle édition française reformatée, Folio junior, Mon histoire, N° 1827, Gallimard jeunesse) (Nouvelle édition française reformatée, Folio junior, Mon histoire, N° 1827, Gallimard jeunesse)
- People/Characters
- Remember "Mem" Patience Whipple; John Billington; Mam; Pap; Master Jones; Master Billington (show all 11); Mistress Billington; Dean Fuller; Will Butten; Dorothy Bradford; First Mate Clark
- Important places
- The Mayflower (ship); Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; Massachusetts, USA
- Important events
- Voyage of the Mayflower; 1620; 1620s; 17th century
- Related movies
- Dear America: A Journey to the New World (1999 | IMDb)
- First words
- "Mem" that's what I answer to.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And in fact it was a great-great-great-granddaughter, a Miss Humility Albright, who discovered the diary of Remember Patience Whipple Endicott in a trunk blackened with age in the attic of her parents' house on Beacon Hill in Boston in the year 1850.
- Original language*
- Angalis (Etats-Unis) (Etats-Unis)
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