By Baskin, Julia 

During the second half of their freshman year at Manhattan's Stuyvesant High School, four girls kept a shared notebook that served as a joint diary and a compendium of letters to one another.

By Anderson, M.T. 

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.

By Meyers, Anna 

In alternating passages, a young White House seamstress named Bella and the actor John Wilkes Booth describe the events that lead to the latter's assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

By Rees, Celia 

In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusettes.

By Meyer, Carolyn  Mary Tudor, who would reign briefly as Queen of England during the mid sixteenth century, tells the story of her troubled childhood as daughter of King Henry VIII.

By Lyons, Mary E.  A fictionalized version of the life of Harriet Jacobs, told in the form of letters that she might have written during her slavery in North Carolina and as she prepared for escape to the North in 1842.

By Lutzen, Hannah  The story of Vlad Dracula as related by the captain of a 19th-century sailing ship, and what happens to a young woman reading that account in the late 20th century. As Lucia reads the account of the voyage, she becomes increasingly obsessed with the character of Vlad. Written as a series of manuscripts, letters, and diary entries.

By Cushman, Karen  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.

By Riverbend  Presents the blog entries of a young Iraqi woman living in Baghdad as she chronicles the hardships and complexities of daily life and the intricacies of the political situation during the first year of the Iraqi 2003 invasion.

By Frank, Anne  The life of the Jewish girl who hid with seven other people in an attic for two years in Nazi-occupied  Holland. Anne chronicled her day-to-day life in a diary which was discovered after her death in a German concentration camp.