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Lock it, Lick it, Click it -
diaries, letters, and emails
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 Life as We Knew It by
Susan Beth Pfeffer - When a meteor hits the
moon, Miranda must learn to survive the unimaginable. Told in journal
entries, this is the heart-pounding story of Miranda's struggle to hold on
to the most important resource of all--hope--in an increasingly desperate
and unfamiliar world. |
 TTYL by Lauren Myracle -
This funny, smart novel follows the friendship of three tenth-grade girls as
they experience some of the typical pitfalls of adolescence: boys, queen-bee
types, a flirty teacher, beer, crazy parents, and more. |
 Breathing Underwater
by Alex Flinn - Sent to
counseling for hitting his girlfriend, Caitlin, and ordered to keep a journal,
sixteen-year-old Nick recounts his relationship with Caitlin, examines his
controlling behavior and anger and describes living with his abusive father. |
 Planet Janet
by Dylan Sheldon -
A "Bridget Jones' Diary" for the younger
set--this hilarious account of teenage angst tells the story of 16-year-old
Janet Bandry, a British teen who chronicles her preparations for the "Dark
Phase" of her life in diary entries. |
 Annie's Baby edited by
Beatrice Sparks Ph.D -
When Annie discovers she's pregnant by
her boyfriend, she's devastated. She has never felt so alone. With no one
she can talk to, she pours her heart out to her diary, confiding her
feelings of panic, self-doubt, and the desperate hope that some day she can
turn her life around. She decides she wants to keep her baby and dreams of
loving and caring for this little person. But after the baby is born, it's
in her diary that she faces the agonizing question: Can she really raise
this child on her own? |
 The Diary of Pelly D
by L.J. Adlington -
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. |
 Alice, I Think by Susan Juby
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This brilliantly observed debut novel was
short-listed for two Canadian literary awards and is certain to appeal to fans
of "Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging." Wise, witty, and entirely
original, "Alice, I Think" is a chronicle of small-town life and a window into
the soul of an utterly appealing heroine. |
 Go Ask Alice by
Anonymous -
This groundbreaking classic is more
compelling than ever for today's readers. A sensation when it was first
published and a perennial bestseller ever since, thisreal-life diary charts an
anonymous teenage girl's struggle with the seductive--and often fatal--world of
drugs. |
 Boy Next Door by Meg Cabot
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Gossip columnist and single New York City
girl Mel lives lives in the most exciting place in the world, yet she's bored
with her love life. But things get interesting fast when the old lady next door
is nearly murdered. Mel starts paying closer attention to her neighbors--what
exactly is going on with the cute boy next door? Has Mel found the love of her
life--or a killer? The whole book is written in e-mails. |
 North by Night : A Story of the Underground Railroad by Katherine Ayres -
It's 1851 and Lucy Spencer's family is
keeping a secret. Their Ohio Home is stationed on the Underground Railroad.
Between Cass, a pregnant fugitive, and the unconventional Miss Aurelia, Lucy is
learning much about growing up, love, and standing on her own. But what will she
do when asked to make the ultimate sacrifice? |
 Tangerine
by Edward Bloor -
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. |
 A
Gathering of Days : A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32 by Joan Blos -
The journal of a 14-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family
farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's
remarriage, and the death of her best friend.
|
 Dear
Great American Writers School by Sherry Bunin -
Fourteen-year-old Bobby Lee's letters to a correspondence school describe her
life in a small Kentucky town during World War II and her growth as a person and
as a writer.
|
 Catherine, Called
Birdy by Karen Cushman -
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. |
 Three NBs of Julian Drew by James Deem -
The journals of a troubled fifteen-year-old boy who lives with his father and
emotionally and physically abusive stepmother and her children after the death
of his own mother years ago.
|
 Letters From A Slave Girl : The Story of Harriet Jacobs
by Mary Lyon -
A fictionalized version of the life of Harriet Jacobs, told in the form of
letters that she might have written during her slavery in North Carolina and as
she prepared for escape to the North in 1842.
|
 Letters
From the Inside by John Marsden -
Through the mail, Mandy and
Tracey become fast friends. They share news about their boyfriends, their
siblings, and pets. They trade stories about school and home. They confide their
every hope and fear. Or do they? What are the secrets hidden between the lines
of their cheerful letters? |
 So
Much To Tell You by John Marsden -
Sent to a hospital by her mother, Marina, a disfigured Australian girl who
refuses to speak, reveals her thoughts and feelings in a diary.
|
 Fat
Chance by Leslie Newman -
In a series of diary entries, thirteen-year-old Judi recounts her struggles to
lose weight, hide her bulimia from her mother, find a boy friend, and decide on
a profession.
|
 Perks
of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky -
Caught between trying to live his life and
trying to run from it, Charlie is navigating through the strange worlds of love,
drugs, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", and dealing with the loss of a good
friend and his favorite aunt. |
 The Color Purple
by Alice Walker -
Sisters Nettie and Celie, the former a
missionary in Africa, the latter a southern woman trapped in an unhappy
marriage, share their thoughts and experiences throughout a thirty-year
correspondence. |
 From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson -
Melanin Sun and Mama have always been the whole family, with a
special closeness that no one has ever been able to come between. Now all that
has changed. Suddenly, Mama is shutting doors that were always kept open--and
Melanin Sun begins to realize she's been keeping secrets from him for a long,
long time. |
 The
Tamarack Tree: A Novel of the Siege of Vicksburg by Patricia Clapp -
An eighteen-year-old English girl finds
her loyalties divided and all her resources tested as she and her friends
experience the terrible physical and emotional hardships of the forty-seven day
siege of Vicksburg in the spring of 1863.
|
 Letters from Rifka
by Karen Hesse -
In letters to her cousin back 'home' in Russia, 12-year-old Rifka tells of her
journey to America in 1919, from the dangerous escape over the border through
Europe and across the sea to the new country. |
 Rats Saw God by Rob Thomas
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Steve York, 18, must write a 100-page paper to make up the credit for a failed
English class. He chooses to document his sophomore and junior years, revealing
how the gifted National Merit Scholar son of an over-achieving father has become
an alienated drug user. As Steve produces an increasingly personal--and
hysterically funny--tale of first love and betrayal, he re-examines his notions
of truth, friendship, family relationships and love. |
 Leslie's
Journal by Allan Stratton -
In this novel, Stratton takes us into a teen world that reverberates with the
emotion and tension of a relationship gone wrong. Here is a book that examines
the adolescent girl's deep need for affirmation as a sexually attractive being
and how the drive for that affirmation can lead to unimaginable consequences. |
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Popular Diary Authors Meg Cabot |
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Diary Series Dear America by Various Authors |
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