diaries

Devastated by her parents' decision to split up, pressured by her boyfriend to have sex, and saddled with a case of chicken pox, fifteen-year-old Keek finds consolation in her beloved, well-worn copy of Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar.".

Mary Seward, back home following a terrifying experience in Transylvania, continues to be plagued by fears and nightmares, and when her father is stricken by a strange virus, she believes there is something more sinister going on--a suspicion that seems to prove true when Quincey Harker, heir to Count Dracula's bloodline, turns up in England claiming to have renounced his evil heritage.

A survivor of a global disaster involving a plague of the undead in the United States keeps a journal of his daily activities while trying to keep from becoming one of the zombies.

Sent to a boarding school by her mother, Marina, a disfigured Australian girl who refuses to speak, reveals her thoughts and feelings in a diary.

In a series of diary entries, British teenager Georgia Nicolson describes her continuing romantic woes as she is pushed toward a decision about the three boys in her life.

Janet records her trials and tribulations in her diary, including how she finds a summer job, the changes in her mother and best friend as they fall in love, and how she approaches her own seventeenth birthday.

Jonah Black, whose thoughts are filled with fantasies about a Pennsylvania girl named Sophie, chronicles in his journal his first six weeks back in Florida after being expelled from a Pennsylvania prep school, during which time he is forced to watch his old friend and new crush, Posie, get friendly with a womanizer.

Courtney, a Colorado high school senior, becomes the bane of her friends' and family's existence as she fumes over being dumped by her college-bound boyfriend--but a temptation named Grant may be enough to drag her back into happiness.

Having recently discovered she is the sole heir to the throne of a tiny European principality, fourteen-year-old Manhattan resident Mia writes in her journal about her attempts to cope with this news, as well as with more typical teenage concerns.

Courtney, a vegetarian animal-rights activist, records in her diary the events of the beginning of her freshman year at a Wisconsin college, far away from Colorado and her boyfriend Grant, surrounded by cheese- and meat-lovers.