diaries

A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps.

Excerpts from the author's diaries, written between the ages of eleven and thirteen, reveal her thoughts and feelings and her early poetic efforts.

A journal account of a wealthy, educated pioneer woman who, with her husband, joined the gold rush to California and raised a family in the American West.

Growing up in Sarajevo, the only child of her parents, Zlata's life was like that of any ordinary girl her age. Soon war broke out on the streets and her world changed from that of an ordinary girl to one trapped in a war torn land. Includes color photographs reproduced from her diary.

Follows the first voyage of discovery made by Christopher Columbus through excerpts from the journal he kept.

A simple adaptation of excerpts in Columbus's diary, from his departure from Spain to his landing in the New World in 1492.