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Keep Out! This Means You:
Teen Fiction Written in Journal Format
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Annie's Baby: The Diary of Anonymous, a Pregnant Teenager
When Annie discovers she's pregnant, she has no one to talk to and pours
her heart out to her diary.
- Bell, William. Forbidden City
17-year-old Alex Jackson is thrilled when his father, a camerman for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is sent on assignment
in China. But the excitement of being in Tiananmen Square turns to horror for Alex as the movement for change turns violent and he witnesses the death of
his Chinese friend.
- Cole, Sheila. What Kind of Love? The Diary of a Pregnant Teenager
Valerie's and Peter's parents oppose a marriage when Valerie finds
out she's pregnant. With only her diary left as a confidante,
Valerie begins making decisions about the future of her baby.
- Cullen, Brian What Niall Saw
Niall Bruce is a 7-year-old Irish schoolboy when the bombs begin
falling. From the claustrophobic shelter of a below-stairs
crawlspace, he relates, in diary form, the experience of his family
as they await the "all clear" signal over the radio. When it doesn't
come, the Bruce family bands together in a desperate struggle for
survival.
- Cushman, Karen. Catherine Called Birdy
Catherine feels trapped. Her father is determined to marry her
off to a rich man -- any rich man, no matter how awful. Can a
sharp-tongued, high-spirited, clever young maiden with a mind of her own
actually lose the battle against an ill-mannered, piglike lord and an
unimaginative, greedy toad of a father?
- Grant, Cynthia. Phoenix Rising, or How to Survive Your Life.
Those panic attacks that 17-year-old Jessie started having after her sister Helen's
death don't really mean anything. Jessie's too tough, too funny, and
too controlled to crack. Jessie won't cry; she stays cool. But Jessie
is tormented by dreams. Then she finds Helen's last diary and decides
to read it each day, a little at a time.
- Grimes, Nikki. Jazmin's Notebook.
Jazmin has her sights set on college, but meanwhile she keeps her eyes open,
noticing all the comings and goings of her 1960s
Harlem neighborhood from her front stoop.
- Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey
Tish desperately needs someone to talk to, but her journal, required for
Mrs. Dunphrey's English class, is her only confidante.
- Hamm, Diane Johnson. Bunkhouse Journal
Sandy Mannix, 16, has run away from Denver -- away from his alcoholic,
abusive father -- to his cousin's ranch in Wyoming. Sandy's bunkhouse
journal records his efforts to make peace with the ghosts of his past and
turn toward a future he alone can forge.
- Hesse, Karen. Out of the Dust
At 14, Billie Jo has a great deal to forgive. Her father, for causing
the accident that killed her mother. Her mother, for leaving when Billie
Jo needed her most. In this series of dated poems, Billie Jo's voice
speaks eloquently of the hardships of living in Oklahoma during the dust
bowl years of the depression.
- Holmes, Barbara Ware. Letters to Julia
Liz Beech, 15, living in the battle zone between her eccentric parents,
writes everything down in a journal and the beginnings of a book.
Encouraged by her teacher, she sends her writing to an editor, with whom
she forms a strong friendship.
- Jones, Robin D. The Beginning of Unbelief
15-year-old Hal keeps a journal of his science fiction story called "The
Beginning of Unbelief," which stars his imaginary friend Zach.
- Kaye, Geraldine. Someone Else's Baby
Seventeen-year-old Terry, single and pregnant, decides to keep a journal to help herself come to terms with an
unhappy homelife and poor self-image as she tries to decide whether or not to keep her baby.
- Kernan, Michael. The Lost Diaries of Frans Hals
When ancient notebooks turn up in a Long Island garage, Peter Van
Overloop, a Columbia graduate student, sets to translating them, and
finds himself immersed in the life and times of the Dutch painter
Frans Hals.
- Marsden, John. So Much to Tell You
14-year-old Marina didn't know why she was sent away to school.
Actually, that wasn't completely true. She knew it had something to
do with the progress she hadn't made in the hospital. After
all, she still didn't talk. And Marina knew her mother didn't want
her at home. Then Marina started writing a journal for English
class. Bit by bit the trauma of her silence begins to unfold.
- Martin, Ann M. California Diaries --
Dawn,
Sunny,
Maggie and
Amalia
With a unique diary page design, the "California Diaries" series is an
intimate look at preteen life in the '90s.
- O'Brien, Robert C. Z for Zachariah
"There is no one left alive ... I know, because after the war ended,
and all the telephones went dead, my family went ... to see what was
happening. They never came back..." Ann Burden is 16 and, as far as
she knows, the only person left in the world. But one day, the smoke
from a distant camp fire shatters Ann's solitude.
- Pffefer, Susan Beth. The Year Without Michael
More of a chronicle than a diary, this book tells the day-by-day story of
16-year-old Jody, whose younger brother disappeared one day between home
and the softball field. Now the family is falling apart. It seems that
all anyone can do is wait. Wait -- for Michael to walk in the door.
Wait -- to stop waiting.
- Rodowsky, Colby. Sydney, Herself
"A Boomerang for a father? Talk about mind-boggling. I mean, the
Boomerangs were awsome, just like the Beatles and the Who and the
Grateful Dead." When the new creative-writing teacher teases Sydney
about her being named after a Boomerang album, she isn't amused. She
she doesn't really know anything about her father, ut it starts to make
sense. Sydney tells all in the pages of her
self-awareness journal and makes some important realizations.
- Schami, Rafik. Hand Full of Stars
Amid the turmoil of modern Damascus, one teenage boy finds his political
voice in a message of rebellion that echoes throughout Syria and as far
away as Western Europe.
- Sebestyen, Ouida. The Girl in the Box
Left in an underground, cement room by an unknown captor, Jackie has food
and water but no light or human contact. Her only chance of reaching the
outside world lies in the notes she stuffs out through a slit in the door.
- Thomas, Rob. Rats Saw God
Steve York is a burned out stoner fluking out of school. When given the chance to redeem himself by writing a
100 page paper, an amazing tale of love and friendship gone bad unfolds.
- Townsend, Sue. The Adrian Mole Diaries
Adrian begins his diary the day his first zit appears and continues it throughout his teenage years. His parents
marriage is about to crack, parts of his body won't seem to keep still,
and he is sick of being the only virgin in class.
- Wersba, Barbara. The Best Place to Live is the Ceiling
In his imagination Archie is a spy. He is also a polo player, a
bullfighter, and an Irish terrorist. In reality, however, Archie is
a lonely 16-year-old who lives in Queens, New York. Unpopular with
girls, awful at sports, undistinguished in school, he spend much of
his time sitting in the restaurant at Kennedy Airport. Then
something happens to Archie that he could never have dreamed of.
- Zindel, Paul. The Amazing and Death-Defying Diary of Eugene Dingman
On his 15th birthday, precocious Eugene Dingman begins the amazing and
death-defying diary of his bizarre summer spent waiting tables at a ritzy
Adirondack resort.
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