diaries

Computer-literate, twelve-year-old Tru keeps an electronic diary where she documents her desire to cure her handicapped twin brother and her plan to create a television show.

In the journal she is keeping for English class, sixteen-year-old Tish chronicles the changes in her life when her abusive father abandons her and her brother, and her mother follows him.

The author recreates and narrates sixteen-year-old Hermine Jahns' experiences traveling on the first cross-country automobile trip with a woman driver in 1909. Includes photographs from the actual journey.

Excerpts from the author's diaries, written between the ages of eleven and thirteen, reveal her thoughts and feelings and her early poetic efforts.

An account of explorer Will Steger's expedition from Russia to Canada by way of the North Pole, traveling by dog sled and canoe.

Entries from the journal of Mary Titus Post written during the American Revolution are presented with background information to help explain their historical context.

Growing up in Sarajevo, the only child of her parents, Zlata's life was like that of any ordinary girl her age. Soon war broke out on the streets and her world changed from that of an ordinary girl to one trapped in a war torn land. Includes color photographs reproduced from her diary.

Follows the first voyage of discovery made by Christopher Columbus through excerpts from the journal he kept.

A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the "Endeavor" which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook.

A novel in diary form in which the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II describes the privileged life her family led up until the time of World War I and the tragic events that befell them.