diaries

Alternating passages that draw on the myths of Persephone and Narcissus juxtapose the differing viewpoints of a teenaged girl and her older brother as she tries to prevent a manipulative psychotherapist from using her journal as material in a book.

The author recounts her struggles with anorexia and her own faith in God through a story about a fictional high school girl's obsession to have the perfect body.

Seventeen-year-old Kate O'Farrell records her thoughts and experiences in a series of secret notebooks, hoping to make sense of life and maybe discover her own destiny.

Orphaned at sixteen, Karl Russel keeps a journal of his inner life during the chaotic sixties in the United States, and on to the political terrorism of Rio de Janeiro and its "invisible" population of the disfigured.

In her illustrated diary, Polly writes about her family, her plans to run away, her school friends and ex-friends, and her boring hamster Horace.

Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.

University professor Joyce Reardon and her team of psychics set out to prove the existence of paranormal phenomena through their investigation of Rose Red, a mansion built on a Native American burial ground in the early twentieth century by oil tycoon John Rimbauer whose wife, Ellen, has left a detailed diary of ghostly and ghastly happenings in the house.

Sixteen-year-old Hermine Jahns relates to her experiences traveling on the first cross-country automobile trip with a woman driver in 1909.

Nine-year-old Laura writes in her journal about the boredom, excitement, and danger that she and her family face while sailing from Japan to the Arctic seas aboard the whaling ship captained by her father.

Max's log book of observations, drawings, experiments, and inventions reveals the rich world of his imagination and his feelings about his parents' divorce.