Quirky sixteen-year-old Lotus Lowenstein's diary reveals that although she lives in Brooklyn and is failing high school French, she loves all things Gallic and dreams of living as an existentialist in Paris.
Teenaged Georgia continues her diary entries as she searches for the perfect boyfriend among the sexy Italian Masimo, the fun-loving Dave, and her ex-love Robbie.
In journal entries to her mother, a gifted artist who died suddenly, thirteen-year-old Georgia McCoy reveals how her life changes after she receives an anonymous gift membership to a nearby art museum.
When sixteen-year-old Skyler's teacher tells her to make a video diary the summer her mother builds a bomb shelter in the backyard, Sky chronicles her twin brother's increasing drug use, her strained relationship with her best friend when a boy enters the picture, and her mother's bad choice of a new boyfriend.
A diary account of thirteen-year-old Anetka's life in Poland in 1896, immigration to America, marriage to a coal miner, widowhood, and happiness in finally finding her true love.
Purports to be the journal of an eight-year-old boy explorer who has, miraculously, lived for four hundred years, travelling the Earth, fighting giant crocodiles, learning to speak with gorillas, and trying to find a way to return home.
For over two years in the mid-1500s, Pieter Bruegel keeps a journal of his trip from his home in Antwerp, The Netherlands, to Rome, where he studies art before returning home again.