THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART TIME INDIAN
by Sherman Alexie
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

THE ASTONISHING LIFE OF OCTAVIAN NOTHING, TRAITOR TO THE NATION, VOLUME 1: THE POX PARTY
by M. T. Anderson
Various diaries, letters and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.

A PERFECT DAY FOR LOVE LETTERS
by Joji Asakura
Stories with humor, wit and enough mystery to keep you guessing with each new delivery.

PRINCESS DIARIES SERIES
by Meg Cabot
The trials of Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl, while dealing with the fact that her father is the Prince of Genovia and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.

THE KISSING DIARY
by Judith Caseley
As thirteen-year-old Rosie Goldglitt contemplates kissing the boy she has a crush on, she tries to navigate the many complications in her life, including her horrible name, her nemesis Mary Katz, her parents' divorce and her mother's new boyfriend.

CATHERINE, CALLED BIRDY
by Karen Cushman
The thirteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off.

TRUE CONFESSIONS OF A HOLLYWOOD STARLET
by Lola Douglas
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.

CROSS YOUR HEART CONNIE PICKLES
by Sabine Durrant
Writing in her diary, fourteen-year-old Connie Pickles records her determination to find a husband for her mother while wading into the waters of friendship, love and money.

IN SEARCH OF MOCKINGBIRD
by Loretta Ellsworth
On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Erin receives her long-dead mother's diary, which reveals that she too revered Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" and wanted to be a writer, and Erin impulsively decides to take the Greyhound bus from St. Paul, Minnesota to Monroeville, Alabama, to visit the reclusive author.

MISS SMITHERS
by Susan Juby
Sixteen-year-old Alice MacLeod's life as an outcast begins to change when she experiments with being friends with different sorts of people, tries eating meat and competes in the Miss Smithers beauty pageant.

SHAKESPEARE BATS CLEANUP
by Ron Koertge
When a fourteen-year-old baseball player catches mononucleosis, he discovers that keeping a journal and experimenting with poetry not only helps fill the time, it also helps him deal with life, love and loss.

KAZUNOMIYA: PRISONER OF HEAVEN
by Kathryn Lasky
Princess Kazunomiya, half-sister of the Emperor of Japan, relates in her diary and in poems the confusing events occurring in the Imperial Palace in 1858, including political and romantic intrigue.

DOORMAT
by Kelly McWilliams
Fourteen-year-old Jaime has always been a doormat, but her diary reveals how getting the lead in a school play, finding her first boyfriend, discovering her dream, and helping her best friend cope with being pregnant transform her life.

TTYL
by Lauren Myracle
Chronicles, in IM format, the day-to-day experiences, feelings and plans of three friends, Zoe, Maddie and Angela, as they begin tenth grade.

L8R G8R
by Lauren Myracle
Throughout their senior year in high school, Zoe, Maddie and Angela continue to share instant messages with one another about their day-to-day experiences as they consider college, sex, the importance of prom and the inevitable end of their inseparable trio.

WATCHINGALICE NUMBER 1: BREAK THE SURFACE
by Daniel Parker and Lee Miller
High school senior Tom Sinclair's journal chronicles events leading up to the disappearance of Alice, the only person he has confided in after moving from Vermont to Manhattan in an attempt to run away from his past.

CONFESSIONS OF GEORGIA NICOLSON
by Louise Rennison
The humorous journals 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.

MY DESPERATE LOVE DIARY
by Liz Rettig
High-school student Kelly chronicles her year of family problems and the pursuit of the guy she has a crush on, while not realizing that she herself is the object of pursuit by Chris, her closest male friend.

PLANET JANET
by Dyan Sheldon
Sixteen-year-old Janet Bandry keeps a diary as she deals with an annoying family, school, a quirky best friend and trying to find herself through vegetarianism, literature, romance and her "Dark Phase."

THE ACTUAL REAL REALITY OF JENNIFER JAMES
by Gillian Shields
While competing on a reality television show being filmed at her English high school, shy and bookish Jennifer James records her experiences in her diary.

LOVE, STARGIRL
by Jerry Spinelli
Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania.

HEART ON MY SLEEVE
by Ellen Wittlinger
From the end of high school to the beginning of college, Chloe and Julian deal with major changes in their families and friendships and explore their feelings for each other through e-mails, letters, and a visit.

THE GRAND TOUR, OR THE PURLOINED CORONATION REGALIA
by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer
Kate and Cecy (from Sorcery and Cecelia, or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot), now proper married ladies, are off on a Grand Tour of the Continent with their adoring husbands and orders from Wellington himself to thwart a magical plot to take over Europe.

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