diaries

Buddy hates to write and is unhappy about having to keep a nature diary for a week until he decides to survey the night sky and discovers something weird in his neighbor's backyard that makes for a truly interesting diary.

Offers advice on how to tell personal family stories, featuring prompts to spur memories, discussing descriptive skills, reviewing story form, and including other storytelling tips.

In this illustrated novel told through journal entries, news clippings, and letters, twelve-year-old Lily finds herself on the jury of a murder trial while conducting her own undercover investigation of the case.

As a page in his uncle's castle in thirteenth-century England, eleven-year-old Tobias records in his journal his experiences learning how to hunt, play games of skill, and behave in noble society. Includes notes on noblemen, castles, and feudalism.

Presents a series of fictional diary entries in which ten-year-old Liza describes her adventures traveling with her family in a covered wagon to Oregon in 1849.

Twelve-year-old Fiona Macgregor uses her journal to record her thoughts and fears about the Great War and the flu epidemic of 1918.

Explains how to journal creatively with color and composition.

Stranded in London for the summer by a relationship gone bad, Catherine blogs her misery while reading the diary of a nineteenth-century girl whose life strangely parallels her own.

A memoir of the then-fifteen-year-old author's high school experience to that point, in which diary entries reflect her struggles, angst, and rebellion.

When eighth-grade school bully Tod and his friends get caught committing a crime on school property, his penalty--staying after school and writing in a journal under the eye of the school guidance counselor--reveals aspects of himself that he prefers to keep hidden.