Bell, William
Forbidden City

Alex does not know when he begins his journal on a trip to China that he will participate in the student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square.

Blos, Joan W
A Gathering of Days

This journal of a fourteen year old girl tells the story of the last year that shelives on the family farm.

Carroll, Jim
Basketball Diaries

Today Jim Carroll is a renowed rock performer and poet. But in the 1960's, during his youth, he was a rebellious teenager making a place and a name forhimself on the mean streets of New York City. During these years, he wrote a diary of his experiences, and the result is a candid and sometimes shocking account of his terrifying teenage existence.

Haddix, Margaret P
Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey

Tish in one of the girls with big hair who sits in the back row of English class. Alone, with no one to talk to, Tish records her growing anxieties - in a journal she will not allow anyone to read.

Hesse, Karen
Letters from Rifka

In letters to her cousin in Russia, twelve year old Rifka tells of her dangerous journey to America.

Marineau, Michele
The Road to Chlifa

Karim's diary describes his journey from war-torn Lebanon to Montreal. Now in a new country he is hauntedby memories of his dangerous passage to freedom.

Schami, Rafik
A Handful of Stars

A teenager tells of his life in modern Damascus through a four year journal. He describes falling in love and his desire to become a journalist.

Townsend, Sue
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4

In very funny entries, Adrian worries about his parents'separation and all the other concerns of being 13 3/4 old.

Zindel, Paul
The Amazing and Death Defying Diary of Eugene Dingman

Eugene provides a record of his fifteenth summer when he works as a waiter and must cope with rejection from a girl he has a crush on.

Lyons, Mary
Keeping Secrets

Diaries contain secrets, and author Mary Lyons has uncovered many of them hidden in the journals of seven extraordinary nineteenth century women.