Dear America is a 39-book series with 39 released primary works first released in 1996 with contributions by Kathryn Lasky, Kristiana Gregory, Barry Denenberg, Patricia C. McKissack, Joyce Hansen, Ellen Emerson White, Mary Pope Osborne, Sherry Garland, Karen Hesse, Ann Rinaldi, Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Jim Murphy, Katelan Janke, Beth Seidel Levine, Megan McDonald, Lisa Rowe Fraustino, Kirby Larson, Andrea Davis Pinkney, Lois Lowry, and Susan Patron.