01097cam a2200277 4500 503739568 TxAuBib 20020919120000.0 990114s1998||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 97040638 /AC 9780590394666 0590394665 TxAuBib Garland, Sherry. A line in the sand : the Alamo diary of Lucinda Lawrence, Gonzales, Texas, 1835. New York : Scholastic, 1998. 201 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. Dear America In the journal she receives for her twelfth birthday in 1835, Lucinda Lawrence describes the hardships her family and other residents of the "Texas colonies" endure when they decide to face the Mexicans in a fight for their freedom. 20020919. Frontier and pioneer life Fiction. Historical fiction. Texas History Fiction. Alamo (San Antonio, Tex) Fiction. Dear America.