Diaries and Journals

Try these titles written in diary format
( shelved alphabetically by author in jfiction, unless otherwise noted )

Historical Fiction

Blos, Joan W. A Gathering of Days :a New England girl's journal, 1830-32

Conrad, Pam Pedro's Journal: a voyage with Christopher Columbus, August, 1492 February, 1493 (jpb)

Crist Evans, CraigMoon over Tennessee: a boy's Civil War journal

Duey, Kathleen Sarah Anne Hartford (jpb)

and others in "American Diaries" series by Duey

Hopkinson, Deborah Birdie's Lighthouse

Moss, Marissa Emma's Journal:the story of a colonial girl

Rachels journal:the story of a pioneer girl

Realistic Fiction

Banks, Lynne Reid Alice by accident

Caseley, Judith Jorah's Journal

Cleary, Beverly Strider

Conford, Ellen Diary of a Monster's Son

Hest, Amy The great green notebook of Katie Roberts...

Mathis, Sharon Bell Running girl:the diary of Ebonee Rose

Moss, Marissa Amelia hits and the road (and others)

Tashjian, Janet Tru Confessions

Weston, Carol The diary of Melanie Martin.

Diaries of real people
(found in the non fiction section by Dewey call number)

J910.45 Spe - Polar, the Titanic bear

j917.9 Pow - The diary of John Wesley Powell

j940 Pla - Castle diary:the journal of Tobias Burgess, page

j949.742 - Fil Zlata's diary: a child's life in Sarajevo

j973.3 Mar - The diary of Joseph Plumb Martin

j974.7 Jem - The diary of Mary Jemison

j979.4 Lee - The diary of David R. Leeper

jB Alc - Louisa May Alcott:her girlhood diary

The following series are shelved in the fiction section alphabetically by series title; "Dear America," "My America," "My Name is America", and "The Royal Diaries"

A sampling of the above series:

"Dear America"

My secret war:the World War II diary of Madeline Beck
by Mary Pope Osborne

Color me dark:the diary of Nellie Lee Love, the great migration North
by Pat McKissack

So far from home:the diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish mill girl
by Barry Denenberg

"My America"

Our strange new land:Elizabeth's diary by Patricia Hermes

"My Name is America"

The journal of Wong Ming Chung:a Chinese miner by Laurence Yep

The journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce, a pilgrim boy by Ann Rinaldi

The journal of William Thomas Emerson, a Revolutionary War patriot

by Barry Denenberg

"The Royal Diaries"

Elizabeth I, the red rose of the House of Tudor by Kathryn Lasky

Anastasia, the last grand Duchess by Carolyn Meyer