diaries

Twelve-year old Vicki, and her friend, Peter, try to solve the mystery of the appearance of a ghost ship, "Storm Goddess, " and its eighteenth-century figurehead, when supernatural occurrences at a seaside resort casts the tourist town in a two-hundred-year-old legend.

An angry, grieving seventeen-year-old musician facing expulsion from her prestigious Brooklyn private school travels to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French revolution by a young actress attempting to help a tortured, imprisoned little boy--Louis Charles, the lost king of France.

A young girl uses her journal to record her thoughts about life as a high school student.

Nineteen-year-old Cordelia Kenn, weeks away from giving birth, gathers up her journals, poems, letters, stories, and thoughts in a collection to share with her daughter on the occasion of the unborn child's sixteenth birthday.

In 1861, eighteen-year-old Sarah Tracy from New York state comes to work at Mount Vernon, the historic Virginia home of George Washington, where she tries to protect the safety and neutrality of the site during the Civil War, and where she encounters her future husband, Upton Herbert.

A collection of essays by Henry Thoreau which reflect on the beauty of nature and his passion for living.

Presents two stories featuring Ameila, one in which she presents a journal that she jots down her thoughts, feelings, and experiences as a babysitter, and another which describes the student council election she is participating in, explaining what the student council does, how it works, and why it is important to elect the best people for the position.

Contains two stories of summer adventure, the first in which Amelia records in her notebook her hopes, fears, and impressions while on a trip to attend a family reunion and meet many of her father's relatives for the first time; and the second in which Amelia finally begins to enjoy her time at sleepaway camp in spite of hard matresses, biting bugs, and exhauting hikes, but trouble looms when she develops a crush on a boy named Luke, only to find out her best friend Carly likes him too.

Jody, outraged when she arrives in the Caribbean to find a group of dolphins have been captured and are being held in unhealthy conditions for the entertainment of tourists, determines to find a way to free the animals.

Sailing around the world researching dolphins with her family, Jody McGrath befriends a rare Irrawaddy dolphin in the Ganges River and sets out to save it when it goes missing and she learns there are poachers in the area.