diaries

Lucy Rose records in her diary her special summer plans--to make a keychain for her mother, to help decorate the living room, to prevent her parents' divorce, to vanquish some squirrels, and to enjoy a ninth birthday adventure with her father.

Presents a selection of writings and drawings from the diary of Anne Elizabeth Rector, a twelve-year-old girl who lived in New York City in 1912, and includes sidebars that describe Rector's life and family, as well as notable people, places, and events of the time.

While dealing with her parents' separation and her best friend's distance, Amanda is able to work out some of her anxiety through her fifth-grade project--writing a diary from the point of view of a ten-year-old girl whose brothers fight on opposite sides in the Civil War.

Although Jennifer is stumped for ideas to use in her new diary, her friend Iola is bursting with stories that may or may not be true to write down if only she had that lovely rainbow-colored book!.

A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the Endeavor which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook.

Beginning in 1783, twelve-year-old Mary describes her Loyalist family's hardships as they are forced to leave New York State after the American Revolutionary War and flee to Canada.

Beginning in 1812, eleven-year-old Susanna Merritt describes her experiences in Niagara Peninsula in Upper Canada on the eve of the War of 1812.

In a series of journal entries, eleven-year-old child prodigy Millicent Min records her struggles to learn to play volleyball, tutor her enemy, deal with her grandmother's departure, and make friends over the course of a tumultuous summer.

After successfully commanding the Discovery shuttle mission at Space Camp, Amelia returns to fifth grade where she deals with the bully who has been making her life miserable.

A ten-year-old's diary entries chronicle the magical sights and sounds she and her family encounter as they explore India.