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Adlington, L.J. The diary of Pelly D

( 2005) When Toni V, a construction worker on a futuristic colony, finds the diary of a teenage girl whose life has been turned upside-down by holocaust-like events, he begins to question his own beliefs.

Anonymous. Go Ask Alice

(1971) Based on the diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user chronicling her struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.

Ayres, Katherine. North By Night

(2000) Presents the journal of a sixteen-year-old girl whose family operates a stop on the Underground Railroad.

Black, Jonah Girls, Girls, Girls

(2001) Expelled from a private school for reasons he refuses to discuss, Jonah Black finds himself living with his genius sister and radio personality and sex therapist mother while he repeats his junior year in his former high school and deals with a mysterious accident in his past.

Black, Jonah. Stop, Don't Stop

(2001) Jonah Black records his musings in the second volume of The Black Book: [Diary of a Teenage Stud] series. The hero recovers from a diving accident, and attempts to understand his feelings for two different girls.

Black, Jonah. Run, Jonah, Run

(2001) This installment of The Black Book details Jonah's hookup with the girl he left behind -- the same one who got him expelled from boarding school up north.

Bloor, Edward Tangerine

(1997) Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.

Cabot, Meg. The Princess Diaries

(2000) Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.

Cabot, Meg. Princess in the Spotlight

( 2001) Having recently discovered she is the sole heir to the throne of a tiny European principality, fourteen-year-old Manhattan resident Mia writes in her journal about her attempts to cope with this news, as well as with more typical teenage concerns.

Cabot, Meg. Princess in Love

(2002) In a series of humorous diary entries, a New York City ninth grader agonizes over her love life, final exams, and future role as the princess of Genovia.

Carlson, Melody. Falling up : a novel

(2006) Dealing with her grief over her mother's recent death and major problems her family and friends are facing cause Kim so much stress she even finds it hard to pray, but things improve when she really starts to "let go and let God."

Clark, Catherine Truth or Dairy

(2000) This is the journal of Courtney Von Dragen Smith: middle child, product of divorce, would-be vegetarian.

Clark, Catherine. Wurst Case Scenario

(2001) Courtney, a vegetarian animal-rights activist, records in her diary the events of the beginning of her freshman year at a Wisconsin college, far away from Colorado and her boyfriend Grant, surrounded by cheese-and meat-lovers.

Cormier, Robert Frenchtown summer

(1999) A series of vignettes in free verse in which the writer reminisces about his life as a twelve-year-old boy living in a small town during the hot summer of 1938.

Cushman, Karen Catherine, Called Birdy

(1994) The thirteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off.

Frank, Anne The Diary of a Young Girl

(1995) A young girl's diary describing the lives of eight people who hide in an attic for two years to avoid arrest by the Nazis.

Glenn, Mel. Who killed Mr. Chippendale? : a mystery in poems

(1996) Free verse poems describe the reactions of students, colleagues, and others when a high school teacher is shot to death as the school day begins.

Herrera, Juan Felipe. CrashBoomLove : a novel in verse

(1999) After his father leaves home, sixteen-year-old Cesar Garcia lives with his mother and struggles through the painful experiences of growing up as a Mexican American high school student.

Hesse, Karen. Out of the Dust

(1997) In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.

Haski, Pierre (Editor). The diary of Ma Yan : the struggles and hopes of a Chinese schoolgirl Translated from the French by Lisa Appignanesi.

(2005) Ma Yan's diary chronicles her struggle to escape the desperate poverty in rural China through education. But, with so little money to pay the fees, she must be persistent and resourceful.

Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey

(1996) In the journal she is keeping for English class, sixteen-year-old Tish chronicles the changes in her life when her abusive father returns home after a two-year absence.

Holmes, Barbara Ware. Letters to Julia

(1997) In her journal, chapters of the novel she is writing, and letters to a New York editor who has befriended her, a fifteen-year-old budding author reveals her journey of self-discovery in the midst of a dysfunctional family.

Juby, Susan. Alice, I think

(2003) Fifteen-year-old Alice keeps a diary as she struggles to cope with the embarrassments and trials of family, dating, school, work, small town life, and a serious case of "outcastitis."

Keyes, Daniel. Flowers for Algernon

(1966) Flowers for Algernon is the journal of Charlie Gordon, a mentally retarded adult who becomes a genius after undergoing a brain operation.

McWilliams, Kelly. Doormat : a novel

(2004) Fourteen-year-old Jaime has always been a doormat, but her diary reveals how getting the lead in a school play, finding her first boyfriend, discovering her dream, and helping her best friend cope with being pregnant transform her life.

Parker, Daniel and Miller, Lee. Break the surface

(2004) High school senior Tom Sinclair's journal chronicles events leading up to the disappearance of Alice, the only person he has confided in after moving from Vermont to Manhattan in an attempt to run away from his past.

Plath, Sylvia. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962

(2000) Transcribed from the original manuscripts at Smith College.

Rennison, Louise. Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging

(2000) Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie.

Rennison, Louise. On the bright side, I'm now the girlfriend of a sex god : further confessions of Georgia Nicolson

(2001) Fourteen-year-old Georgia continues her diary in which she records her misadventures trying to reclaim the attention of seventeen-year-old Robbie, while coping with her friends, family, and dog-like cat Angus at the same time. Sequel to: Angus, thongs, and full-frontal snogging

Rennison, Louise. Knocked out by my nunga-nungas : further, further confessions of Georgia Nicolson

(2002) The saga of fourteen-year-old Georgia Nicolson continues as she travels to Scotland on a nightmarish family vacation, confesses her anxiety over being the girlfriend of a sex god, and tests the limits of true friendship. Sequel to: On the bright side, I'm now the girlfriend of a sex god.

Rennison, Louise. Dancing in my nuddy-pants: even further confessions of Georgia Nicolson

(2003) The further confessions of teenager Georgia Nicolson continue as, among other things, she begins to wonder if Robbie is really the right boy for her.

Rennison, Louise. Away laughing on a fast camel : even more confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison

(2004) The saga of teenager Georgia Nicolson continues in diary entries about her life after her boyfriend goes off to Kiwi-agogoland, leaving her to make do without him.

Sparks, Beatrice. Kim: Empty Inside

(2002) Seventeen-year-old Kim, feeling the pressure of maintaining an A average to stay on her college gymnastics team, becomes obsessive about her weight and develops anorexia.