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Tangerine

1998
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.

Storky

how I lost my nickname and won the girl
2007
Fourteen-year-old high school student Michael "Storky" Pomerantz's journal describes his freshman year, from dealing with his mother's dating his dentist to attempting to win the heart of the girl he loves.

True confessions of a Hollywood starlet

a novel
2005
Teen movie star Morgan Carter retreats to a small midwestern town to recuperate anonymously after an overdose and rehabilitation, recording her thoughts in a diary.

Walking on glass

2007
A teenage boy recounts, in a free verse journal, his attempts to come to terms with the realities of his mother's near-death coma.

Go ask Alice

2006
Based on the diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user chronicling her struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.

The rise and fall of a 10th-grade social climber

2005
Mimi Schulman moves to New York after her parent's divorce, but climbing the social ladder at the upscale Baldwin School along side offspring of diplomats and celebrities who have more problems that she has, proves to be more challenging that Mimi expected.

Aimee

a novel
2002
Zoe, a high school senior, struggles to survive the aftermath of the suicide of her best friend Aimee, and her own murder trial for her role in the incident, by writing about her feelings in a journal.

Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging

confessions of Georgia Nicolson
2000
Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie.

Phoenix rising, or, How to survive your life

1989
Helen's death at eighteen from cancer shatters the lives of her parents and siblings, especially younger sister Jessie who tries to cope with her feelings of pain and confusion by reading pages from Helen's diary.

Looking for seabirds

journal from an Alaskan voyage
2004
A journal of the author's observations and adventures while working on a research vessel counting seabirds through Alaska's Aleutian Island chain.

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