diaries

In 1936 sixteen-year-old Sophie lives in a crumbling castle in the island kingdom of Montmaray. The rumblings of war seem remote in Montmaray until two German officers land there. Then Sophie, her sister, her cousin, and her uncle must try to hold on to their home.

When sixth-grader Gene Tucks is given a 100-day journal writing assignment by her teacher, she learns that he plans to seal away the journals so that they can be read by other sixth-graders in forty years. Gene reluctantly begins writing to "Nobody," but soon begins writing her entries to "Toni" and finds that Toni is a good listener to whom she can tell anything.

A series of journal entries in which Maxine shares the story of losing her best friend Leah, discusses her feelings of fear, guilt, and betrayal, and describes her attempts to help the police find the Internet predator who abducted Leah.

Katie begins to find her own strength and courage after she ends up in foster care, away from her angry, abusive father.

Toni V, a construction worker on a futuristic colony, finds the diary of a teenage girl whose life has been turned upside-down by holocaust-like events, and he begins to question his own beliefs.

During her thirteenth summer, the "eventually internationally recognized writer" Lily Blennerhassett struggles to cope with life in her tremendously "uncool" family after meeting a much better one.

On spring break in Spain, fifth-grader Melanie Martin decides to spy on her mother for her father when her mother starts spending a lot of time with her old boyfriend, Antonio, but when she meets Antonio's cute twelve-year-old son, her plans go out the window.

Virginia records the events of her life as her family moves to New York City in the aftermath of the Civil War, and she begins to dream of a life in the theater.

When fourteen-year-old Rachel reads the journal of her brother, who died when she was seven, she learns secrets that help her understand her parents and herself.

Writing in the diary which her father gave her, thirteen-year-old Yara describes life with her family in Havana, Cuba, in 1967 as well as her experiences in Miami, Florida, after immigrating there to be reunited with some relatives while leaving others behind.