The fictional diaries that put DEAR AMERICA on bestseller lists are now available in paperback in the boxed DEAR AMERICA Library Collections. Each of the four books in this box set offers a different story about the journey to the West and the pioneering spirit that flourished in nineteenth century America -- that of a boy traveling with the ill-fated Donner Party, a girl making the journey with her family along the Oregon Trail, a girl whose father brings her to California as he takes part in the gold rush, and a girl who witnesses the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad.