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Diaries

This Is All

Aidan Chambers

Nineteen-year-old Cordelia Kenn, weeks away from giving birth, gathers up her journals, poems, letters, stories, and thoughts in a collection to share with her daughter on the occasion of the unborn c

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Life As We Knew It

Susan Beth Pfeffer

Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.

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Behind the Mountains

Edwidge Danticat

Writing in the notebook which her teacher gave her, 13-year-old Celiane describes life with her mother and brother in Haiti as well as her experiences in Brooklyn after the family finally immigrates t

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You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When It Monsoons

Mo Willems

A collection of single panel comics that the author/illustrator used to record his daily impressions of places he visited while on a year-long journey around the world following his college graduation

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Catherine, Called Birdy

Karen Cushman

The 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 b

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Bloodline

Kate Cary

Nineteen-year-old John Shaw returns from World War One and is haunted by nightmares of not only the battles but the horrifying discovery that his regimental commander is descended from Count Dracula.

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The Diary of Pelly D

L. J. Adlington

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, and he begins to question his own beliefs.

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Acceleration

Graham McNamee

Stuck working in the lost and found department of the Toronto Transit Authority for the summer, seventeen-year-old Duncan finds the diary of a serial killer and sets out to stop him.

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Thura's Diary

Thura Al-Windawi

Chronicles nineteen-year-old Thura's life in Baghdad during the 2003 Iraqi war and its aftermath.

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Confessions of a Backup Dancer

Tucker Shaw

Kelly Kimbal lands a job as a back-up dancer for pop diva, Darcy Barnes, but is soon fired by Darcy's overbearing mother until Darcy develops the courage to tell her mother off and bring Kelly back in

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