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The Last Straw

Diary of a Wimpy Kid
2009
Middle-schooler Greg Heffley nimbly sidesteps his father's attempts to change Greg's wimpy ways until his father threatens to send him to military school.

Who I am, by Caitlin O'Conner

2002
As she faces her senior year in high school, Caitlin O'Connor finds herself torn between two semi-different worlds and tries to find a way to pull them together and discover her true identity.

Cross my heart

2001
While on Catalina Island for the summer, Lucy, who is almost twelve, discovers a mysterious diary from 1932 and rediscovers Christ, both of which help her overcome her feelings of not belonging.

Mountain pose

2002
When twelve-year-old Ellie inherits an old Vermont farm from her cruel and heartless grandmother Aurelia, she reads a set of diaries written by an ancestor and discovers secrets from the past.

Crandall's castle

2005
Charli's impulsive uncle, Will Crandall, decides to buy the town's abandoned, possibly haunted castle and fix it up as a bed-and-breakfast, but Charli and Sophia, a clairvoyant orphan who has come to stay with the Crandall family, know his plan is somehow dangerous.

The carbon diaries 2017

2011
In 2017, two years after England introduces carbon dioxide rationing to combat climatic change, Laura chronicles her first year at a London university as natural disasters and political upheaval disrupt her studies.

Darling Jim

a novel
2009
A reclusive aunt and her two nieces turn up dead and a young postal worker finds a diary in the dead letter office which offers clues about Jim Quick, a mysterious Irish storyteller, who had become obssessed with the aunt.

Stolen words

2001
In her diary, eleven-year-old Robyn describes her family's visit to Austria, from the disastrous theft of their luggage to adventures in the countryside, while she tries to recover from the death of her Aunt Beth.

Posh and prejudice

2009
At the end of her last year of compulsory education, sixteen-year-old Shiraz resigns herself to life in her gritty London suburb, serving fried eggs at Mr. Yolk and dating plumber-in-training Wesley, until she receives high marks in her examinations and decides to enroll in her school's "Center of Excellence" program.

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