diaries

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Away laughing on a fast camel

even more confessions of Georgia Nicolson
2004
The saga of teenager Georgia Nicolson continues in diary entries about her life after her boyfriend goes off to Kiwi-agogoland, leaving her to make do without him.

Shakespeare bats cleanup

2006
When a fourteen-year-old baseball player catches mononucleosis, he discovers that keeping a journal and experimenting with poetry not only helps fill the time, it also helps him deal with life, love, and loss.

A gathering of days

a novel
1990
The journal of a fourteen-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her father's remarriage, and the death of her best friend.

The journal of James Edmond Pease

a Civil War Union soldier
2003
James Edmond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his experiences and those of "G" Company which he joined as a volunteer in the Union Army during the Civil War.

Skinny Melon and me

2000
Cherry keeps a diary about her parents' divorce, her new stepfather Roland Butter who draws rebuses for her, and the coming stepbrother or stepsister.

Early Sunday morning

the Pearl Harbor diary of Amber Billows
2003
In her diary, twelve-year-old Amber describes moving to Hawaii in 1941 and experiencing the horror of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Pirate diary

the journal of Jake Carpenter
2003
The fictional diary of a ten-year-old boy who, in 1716 sets off from North Carolina to become a sailor, but ends up a pirate instead.

A perfect place

Joshua's Oregon Trail diary, book two
2002
Late in 1848, nine-year-old Joshua McCullough starts a second journal, this time recording events in Willamette Valley, Oregon Territory, as his family and others they met on the trail begin to get settled.

After the rain

Virginia's Civil War diary
2002
In her diary, a ten-year-old girl writes about her family's experiences living in Washington, D.C., in 1864-65, during which time the Civil War comes to an end and President Lincoln is assassinated. Includes historical notes.

A gift for Jo

1999
Jo March is given a journal in which to record her most private thoughts, but when her sisters read what she has written, it threatens to tear them apart.

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