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Go Ask Alice |
A fifteen-year-old drug user chronicles her daily struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.
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It Happened to Nancy |
A teenaged victim of AIDS recounts her battle with the disease in her diary, describing her first love, the night she was date-raped, her diagnosis of AIDS, and her thoughts and dreams.
YA362.1969792
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| CABOT, Meg |
The Princess Diaries |
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 heir to the throne.
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Princess in the Spotlight |
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.
YA
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| CLEARY, Beverly |
Strider |
In a series of diary entries, Leigh tells how he comes to terms with his parents' divorce, acquires joint custody of an abandoned dog, and joins the track team at school.
J
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| COLE, Sheila |
What Kind of Love: the Diary of a Pregnant Teenager |
Valerie Larch confides her reactions to her pregnancy in her diary as she sees its effects on her relationships with her boyfriend and her parents and on her future plans, and considers giving her child up for adoption.
FIC
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| CUSHMAN, Karen |
Catherine, Called Birdy |
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.
FIC
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| EASTON, Kelly |
The Life History of a Star |
For more than a year, fourteen-year-old Kristin uses her diary to record her confused thoughts about the physical changes brought on by adolescence and the emotional strain on her family of living with the "ghost" of her beloved older brother who was physically and mentally destroyed while serving in Vietnam.
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| FLINN, Alexandra |
Breathing Underwater |
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. A first novel.
YA
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| GREENBERG, Judith E. |
Journal of a Revolutionary War Woman |
Entries from the journal of Mary Titus Post, written during the American Revolution, are presented with background information to help explain their historical context.
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| HUNT, Caroline Rose |
Primrose Past: the 1848 Journal of Young Lady Primrose |
While examining the antique desk she has just purchased, an American woman uncovers the diary of a teenage girl, who provides an innocent but perceptive portrait of English Victorian society in 1848 as she reveals details about her life and family.
FIC
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| KAYE, Geraldine |
Someone Else's Baby |
Seventeen-year-old Terry, single and pregnant, decides to keep a journal to help her come to terms with an unhappy homelife and poor self-image as she tries to decide whether or not to keep her baby.
YA
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| MILLER, Dawn |
The Journal of Callie Wade |
The diary of eighteen-year-old Callie Wade, recounting her experiences on a wagon train heading west in 1859.
FIC
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| MYERS, Walter Dean |
Monster |
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
YA
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| NEWMAN, Leslea |
Fat Chance |
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.
FIC
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| REES, Celia |
Witch Child |
In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.
YA
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| RENNISON, Louise |
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson |
Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of Georgia, 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.
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On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God: Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson |
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.
YA
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| STRATTON, Allan |
Leslie's Journal |
In her diary, Leslie records her life after her parents' divorce and her relationship with a rich but abusive boyfriend who finally threatens her when she tries to break up with him.
YA
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| ZACH, Cheryl |
Secret Admirer |
Brittany finds her close relationship with her boyfriend, Nate, undermined when she begins to communicate with the man of her dreams on the Internet.
YA
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| ZINDEL, Paul |
The Amazing and Death Defying Diary of Eugene Dingham |
Fifteen-year-old Eugene Dingman records in his personal diary his summer spent as a waiter in a hotel in the Adirondacks, learning to cope with rejection by the girl he has a crush on as well as by his own father.
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