Diaries

Go Ask Alice

By Anonymous

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In the 35 years since its original publication, this acclaimed, bestselling diary-format account of a teenage girl's harrowing descent into the nightmarish world of drugs has left an indelible mark on generations of teens readers.
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Rachel's Journal: the Story of a Pioneer Girl

By Marissa Moss

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In her journal, Rachel chronicles her family's adventures traveling by covered wagon on the Oregon Trail in 1850. J Fic Mos
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Days of Jubilee: The End of Slavery in the United States

By Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack

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Uses slave narratives, letters, diaries, military orders, and other documents to chronicle the various stages leading to the emancipation of slaves in the United States.

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Early Sunday Morning: The Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows

By Barry Denenberg

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In her diary, twelve-year-old Amber describes moving to Hawaii in 1941 and experiencing the horror of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Part of the Dear America series.
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I, Columbus: My Journal, 1492-3

By Peter and Connie Roop

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All the excitement of Columbus' first voyage of discovery is captured in the master mariner's own diaries.
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Christopher Columbus

By Peter and Connie Roop

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Diary selections throughout this biography let Columbus tell his story in his own words. 128 pages. Includes maps.

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Where Have All the Flowers Gone? The Diary of Molly Mackenzie Flaherty

By Ellen Emerson White

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n 1968 Massachusetts, after her brother Patrick goes to fight in Vietnam, fifteen-year-old Molly records in her diary how she misses her brother, volunteers at a Veterans' Administration Hospital, and tries to make sense of the war in Vietnam and the tumultuous events in the United States. Includes historical notes. 

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The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: A World War II Soldier

By Walter Dean Myers

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A seventeen-year-old soldier from central Virginia records his experiences in a journal as his regiment takes part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and subsequent battles to liberate France. 

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The Princess Diaries

By Meg Cabot

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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. 

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Joys of Journal Writing

The long hot days of summer are coming, and with them there will be time for sports, time for camp, time to dream, and time to do. Time to start a diary or journal?

A journal can be written for only yourself, to write down the things that are important to you: lists of favorites (music, t.v., and movies), pictures of friends and family, and, of course, your innermost thoughts. Fun times deserve to be remembered, and sometimes writing about a bad situation can help you deal with it better as you think it through on paper. That kind of journal is personal, and you may not wish to share it with anyone.