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.

Explores some of the reasons for keeping a journal, and provides illustrated instructions for making journals in a variety of styles.

When scholarship student Nikki Maxwell, whose father is the school exterminator, decides to enter the talent show at her expensive private school, her nemesis MacKenzie threatens to reveal Nikki's status to the rest of the school.

Mellie has always abided by the rules of her ultra-conservative family. But when she is raped by someone she trusts, she has no one to turn to. And when she discovers she is pregnant, she's faced with a life-altering choice. Liese is a young champion for women's rights, and when she notices Mellie acting strangely, she gets caught up in a whirlwind trying to save her.

Collects challenges to the reader to handle or mistreat the book in a variety of creative ways, from picking up the book without using one's hands to purposefully dropping it from a great height.

When Nancy and Bess accompany George to a cousin's wedding in historic Charleston, South Carolina, they end up staying at a seemingly haunted inn--and solving a mystery.

When her father begins a long-distance romance with a Washington, D.C. zookeeper, twelve-year-old Frankie sends fabricated email letters to the zookeeper in an attempt to end the relationship.

Twelve-year-old Abigail, along with her mother and siblings, faces many hardships after her father joins General Washington's Continental Army and they become camp followers.

Middle-school drama queen Nikki Maxwell worries about asking a boy to her school's "sweetheart dance.".

Buddy hates to write and is unhappy about having to keep a nature diary for a week until he decides to survey the night sky and discovers something weird in his neighbor's backyard that makes for a truly interesting diary.