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Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life

Rachel Renee Russell · 282 pages

Nikki Maxwell is starting eighth grade at a new school—and her very first diary is packed with hilarious stories and art in this SUPER SQUEE updated edition of the first book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series! Nikki confesses all in her first diary ever: her epic battle with her mom for an iPhone, meeting her new soon-to-be BFFs Chloe and Zoey, falling for adorably sweet

Diary FormatSelf-Deprecating HumorMiddle GradeLighthearted
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Catherine, Called Birdy

Karen Cushman · 218 pages

¨Catherine's mother wants to teach her the skills of the lady of the manor and to prepare her to be a gentle and patient wife. Her father only wants her to be married off, and profitably. Catherine herself hopes to become a painter, a Crusader, a maker of songs, a peddlar, a monk, a ministrel, a wart charmer... Of all the possibilities, she has ruled out only one: being sold like cheese to the hig

Diary FormatSelf-Deprecating HumorMiddle GradeLighthearted
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Sixsational

Meg Cabot · 238 pages

The novel that inspired the hit movie!Mia Thermopolis is pretty sure there's nothing worse than being a five-foot-nine, flat-chested freshman, who also happens to be flunking Algebra. Is she ever in for a surprise. First Mom announces that she's dating Mia's Algebra teacher. Then Dad has to go and reveal that he is the crown prince of Genovia. And guess who still doesn't have a date for the Cultur

Diary FormatSelf-Deprecating HumorLightheartedMiddle Grade
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Big Nate: In a Class by Himself

Lincoln Peirce · 224 pages

Supremely confident middle school student Nate Wright manages make getting detention from every one of his teachers in the same day seem like an achievement.

Diary FormatSelf-Deprecating HumorMiddle GradeLighthearted
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Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas

Louise Rennison · 183 pages

The saga of fourteen-year-old Georgia Nicolson continues as she travels to Scotland on a nightmarish family vacation, confesses her anxiety over being the girlfriend of a sex god, and tests the limits of true friendship.

Diary FormatSelf-Deprecating HumorMiddle GradeLighthearted
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My So-Called Life

Joanna Nadin · 304 pages

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The Princess Diaries

Meg Cabot, megu kiyabotsuto · 301 pages

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

Sue Townsend · 203 pages

From book jacket: Adrian Mole is a worrier. The problems of existence hit him hard. Spots, bits of him that won't seem to keep still, the cracks in his parents' marriage, all prey heavily on his mind. There are some consolations. A 14 year old feminist, an 89 year old chain smoker and his spoilt best friend all help to lift the gloomy introspection of Mole's moods. Mole believes he is an intellect

Diary FormatSelf-Deprecating HumorLightheartedFunny
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Junie B., First Grader: Shipwrecked

Barbara Park · 96 pages

Junie B.'s journal entries start with Room One's stomach virus excitement, the first-grade Columbus Day play, and getting the part of the Pinta, the fastest ship.

Diary FormatChild NarratorLightheartedFunny
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The Hidden Oracle

Rick Riordan · 384 pages

How do you punish an immortal? By making him human. After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and disorientated, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Now, without his godly powers, the four-thousand-year-old deity must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's favour. But Apollo has many enemie

Self-Deprecating HumorMiddle GradeLightheartedFunny
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Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Not Reading

Tommy Greenwald · 232 pages

220 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm830L Lexile

Self-Deprecating HumorMiddle GradeLightheartedFunny
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Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

Judy Blume · 120 pages

Any fourth grader would agree that Peter Hatcher has a terrible problem—his little brother, Fudge. But the grown-ups in his life just can't see that there is something wrong with a two-year-old who breaks his front teeth try- ing to fly, decides that he is a dog, goes on a no-eat strike, and scribbles all over his brother's homework. Peter is always asked to perform so that Fudge will be less of

Child NarratorMiddle GradeSelf-Deprecating HumorLighthearted
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With the Might of Angels: The Diary of Dawnie Rae Johnson, Hadley, Virginia, 1954

Andrea Davis Pinkney

Coretta Scott King winner Andrea Davis Pinkney brings her talents to a brand-new Dear America diary about the Civil Rights Movement. In the fall of 1955, twelve-year-old Dawn Rae Johnson's life turns upside down. After the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, Dawnie learns she will be attending a previously all-white school. She's the only one of her friends to go to this new sc

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The Starving Time

Patricia Hermes · 109 pages

Elizabeth Barker continues to write to her "friend," her diary, as disease and lack of food further plague the suffering settlers at Jamestown.

Diary FormatChild NarratorMiddle GradeTeen Protagonist
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Nicholas

Rene Goscinny · 131 pages

This collection of stories focuses on the whimsical adventures and misadventures of little Nicolas and his friends at school and at play. Available to English-speaking children for the first time, this worldwide classic is one of a five book series that brings to life the day-to-day adventures of a young school boy--amusing, endearing, and always in trouble.

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Boys Don't Knit (in Public)

T.S. Easton · 277 pages

After an unfortunate incident with a lollipop lady Ben takes up knitting to fulfill his probation requirements but things don't quite work out as planned.

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The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

Bill Watterson · 1,456 pages

This is a three volume slipcased book collection of the Calvin and Hobbes comic strips that where published from 1985-1995, it covers all the strips published and also reproduces many of the covers of earlier books in full page color illustrations. There are three daily black and white strips per page, and one color Sunday comic on a single page. Besides the comic strips there is also other full p

Child NarratorLightheartedMiddle GradeFunny
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The Popularity Papers

Amy Ignatow · 206 pages

Two best friends embark on a project to study the behavior and taste of the popular girls at their elementary school so that by the time they get to middle school they too will be in the right crowd. Novel appears in the form of a scrapbook.

Diary FormatMiddle GradeLightheartedFunny
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The Great Brain

John D. Fitzgerald · 175 pages

Child NarratorMiddle GradeLightheartedFunny
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Smile

Raina Telgemeier · 213 pages

Middle GradeSelf-Deprecating HumorLightheartedTeen Protagonist

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