In her journal, Dilly describes her campaign for president of the fourth-grade class, and how she learns to deal with the responsibilities when she wins the election.
Presents a guide to keeping a journal and includes information on beginning the creative process, with advice for getting started and for creating a thirty-day journal Includes writing exercises, glossary, and index.
At the suggestion of her therapist, ten-year-old Fiona begins to keep a journal in which she records her fears, feelings, and gradual adjustment in the year after her parents get a divorce.
Fourteen-year-old Jaime has always been a doormat, but her diary reveals how getting the lead in a school play, finding her first boyfriend, discovering her dream, and helping her best friend cope with being pregnant transform her life.
Kelly Kimbal lands a job as a back-up dancer for pop diva Darcy Barnes, but is soon fired by Darcy's overbearing mother until Darcy develops the courage to tell her mother off and bring Kelly back into the show.
In her journal the relentlessly superficial Tiffany, head of the cheerleading group called the Cannibals, describes the excitement and turmoil of her senior year in high school.
Sixteen-year-old Laura journals as her family begins to fall apart after futuristic England begins to ration carbon dioxide due to global warming, and she longs for the days of normalcy.
