“Dear Sunny: I don’t expect you to understand any of this yet, but we’ll always have yesterday... and today, and tomorrow. Maybe one day you’ll figure it out. I never could.” With a supportive family, great friends, and a spot on her...
Diaries
- Author:Stevenson, Sarah JamilaSummary:
- Author:Deriso, Christine HurleySummary:
It's not exactly easy living in a shrine to your dead sister. Since birth, I've known that everyone loved Shannon. She was perfect—beautiful, smart, talented. And me? Not so much. My parents always expected me to live up to her...
- Author:Rennison, LouiseSummary:
After trying to take Hamburgeragogoland, also known as the United States, by storm when her family vacations in Memphis, Tennessee, a British teen returns home to deal with the attentions of too many boys, weird parents, and mad cats....
- Author:Groen, HendrikSummary:
Hendrik Groen may be old, but he is far from dead and isn't planning to be buried anytime soon. Instead, he sets out to write an exposé: a year in the life of his care home in Amsterdam.
- Author:Rivers, FrancineSummary:
When Sierra discovers her young ancestor's handcrafted quilt and reads her journal, she finds that their lives are very similar. By following her ancestor's example, she learns to surrender to God's sovereignty and...
- Author:Nielsen, SusinSummary:
When thirteen-year-old Henry and his family move to the city to leave behind a secret tragedy, Henry finds a journal is his best friend.
- Author:Karp, LarrySummary:
It’s 1951, and ragtime is making a comeback. In Sedalia, Missouri, plans are underway for a ceremony to honor Scott Joplin. Brun Campbell, the old Ragtime Kid, is working to establish Joplin’s legacy. Brun learns of a journal Joplin...
- Author:Cabot, Meg.Summary:
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...
- Author:Pepys, SamuelSummary:
Presents excerpts chronicling one of the most colorful periods of the Restoration.
- Author:Frank, AnneSummary:
Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century.
- Author:FINE, AnneSummary:
Ellie is horrified when Tuffy keeps dragging dead creatures into the house. Tuffy can't understand what the fuss is about. Can soft-hearted Ellie manage to get her pet to change his wild, wild ways? The hilarious antics of Tuffy...
- Author:Gale, Eric KahnSummary:
In this story told alternately through journal entries and instructions from a bullying manual, sixth-grader Eric embarks on a quest to find the reason why he is being teased and tormented in middle school.
- Author:Hogarth, AinslieSummary:
Gripping, grisly, and keeps you guessing until the shocking end Noelle Dixon takes a summer nightshift job at the infamous Boy Meets Girl Inn, even though she’s well aware of the horrifying murders that happened there decades ago. That’...
- Author:Ransom, John L.Summary:
Ransom was 20 when he was captured and made prisoner of war in 1863 at Andersonville, Georgia. In prison, he was surrounded by death, disease and cruelty, but he survived to write this true account.
- Author:Alexie, ShermanSummary:
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
- Author:Bloor, EdwardSummary:
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.
- Author:Russell, Rachel ReneeSummary:
When Miss Know-It-All's inbox overflows with pleas for guidance, Nikki Maxwell, the school newspaper advice columnist, turns to her best friends for help.
- Author:Russell, Rachel RenéeSummary:
Middle-school drama queen Nikki Maxwell worries about asking a boy to her school's "sweetheart dance."
- Author:Russell, Rachel ReneeSummary:
Nikki Maxwell is determined to help out her crush Brandon save an animal shelter. So Nikki and her friends Chloe and Zoey enter an ice skating competition to help raise money for the shelter, but (big surprise) Mackenzie has to stick...
- Author:Cabot, Meg.Summary:
During the days before her sixteenth birthday, Mia records in her diary her fear that her grandmother and friends may be planning to throw an extravagant Sweet Sixteen party.