By Shields, Gillian 

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.

By Miller, Mary Beth 

Aimee’s dead, and everyone believes that her best friend helped her commit suicide. After Aimee dies, after the trial, after the move to the new town, she’s completely alone—paralyzed by the loneliness, guilt and anger at everyone’s suppression of the truth. Isolated, she writes in her journal, and gradually lets readers into her world. A world where parents don’t listen, therapists don’t help, and best friends betray you.

By Rennison, Louise  This first book in a series presents the humorous journal of a year in the life 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.

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.

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 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 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 Flinn, Alex  Sent to counseling for hitting his girlfriend, Caitlin, and ordered to keep a journal, sixteen-year-old Nick recounts his relationship with Caitlin, examines his controlling behavior and anger, and describes living with his abusive father.