Dear America is a 19-book series with 19 primary works first released in 1996 with contributions by Kathryn Lasky, Barry Denenberg, Kristiana Gregory, Patricia C. McKissack, Sherry Garland, Mary Pope Osborne, Ellen Emerson White, Ann Turner, Karen Hesse, Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Jim Murphy, Beth Seidel Levine, and Megan McDonald.