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School, Drool, and Other Daily Disasters

Rachel Vail · back to the book

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AnxietyMiddle GradeFirst Person NarratorChild Narrator
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Diary FormatMiddle GradeFirst Person NarratorMale Lead
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Hate That Cat

Sharon Creech · 164 pages

Jack is back at school and thankfully Miss Stretchberry is his teacher again. Jack likes her! But he disagrees with her about one thing ... CATS. Jack hates cats. Or at least he does until he gets to know some kittens and reads some poetry about cats.

Diary FormatMiddle GradeFirst Person NarratorFunny
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From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess

Meg Cabot · 182 pages

Twelve-year-old Olivia is a half orphan who's never met her father. Everything changes when Mia Thermopolis, Princess of Genovia, invites Olivia to finally meet her father.

Diary FormatMiddle GradeFirst Person NarratorFunny
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The Story of Tracy Beaker

Jacqueline Wilson · 133 pages

'I'm Tracy Beaker. This is a book all about me. I'd read it if I were you. It's the most incredible dynamic heart-rending story. Honest.' Tracy is ten years old. She lives in a Children's Home but would like a real home one day, with a real family. Meet Tracy, follow her story and share her hopes for the future in this beautifully observed, touching and often very funny tale, all told in Tracy'

Diary FormatMiddle GradeFirst Person NarratorFunny
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Twerp

Mark Goldblatt

Diary FormatMiddle GradeFirst Person NarratorFunny
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Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre · 238 pages

Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature, Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, critic, novelist, and dramatist, holds a position of singular eminence in the world of letters. Among readers and critics familiar with the whole of Sartre's work, it is generally recognized that his earliest novel, La Nausée (first published in 1938), is his finest and most significant. It is unquestionably a key

Diary FormatAnxietyFirst Person NarratorMale Lead
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Millicent Min, Girl Genius

Lisa Yee · 248 pages

Who would have thought being smart could be so hard (and funny)? Millicent Min is having a bad summer. Her fellow high school students hate her for setting the curve. Her fellow 11-year-olds hate her for going to high school. And her mother has arranged for her to tutor Stanford Wong, the poster boy for Chinese geekdom. But then Millie meets Emily. Emily doesn't know Millicent's IQ score. She a

Diary FormatMiddle GradeFirst Person NarratorFunny
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Dork Diaries Box Set (Books 1-6)

Rachel Renee Russell

Diary FormatMiddle GradeFirst Person NarratorFunny
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The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen

Susin Nielsen · 243 pages

When thirteen-year-old Henry and his family move to the city to leave behind a secret tragedy, Henry finds a journal is his best friend.

Diary FormatMiddle GradeFirst Person NarratorFunny
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Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North

Patricia C. McKissack · 220 pages

An ordinary girl living extraordinary events. Her family, Love, characterizes her comfortable, secure world in Bradford Corners, TN. Until Uncle Pace is murdered by the KKK. The Author gradually exposes the prejudice & segregation existing even though slavery has been abolished over 50 years. All discover, how whites live on one side of the only road, & Colored live on the other. We recognize t

Diary FormatMiddle GradeFirst Person NarratorChild Narrator
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The List of Things That Will Not Change

Rebecca Stead · 240 pages

EIGHT STARRED REVIEWS! The reassuring book kids and families need right now."An absolute original . . . a story that kids will love." --R. J. Palacio, bestselling author of WonderAt a time when everything is changing for Bea and her family, the important things will always stay the same. A soon-to-be classic by the Newbery Award-winning author of When You Reach Me.After her parents' divorce, Bea's

AnxietyMiddle GradeFirst Person NarratorChild Narrator
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Caleb's Story

Patricia MacLachlan · 116 pages

Sequel to: Skylark. The stranger lurking on the Witting family's prairie farm turns out to be their long-lost grandfather, whose presence plus prodding from Sarah forces Jacob to deal with his past.

Diary FormatMiddle GradeFirst Person NarratorMale Lead
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The Dirt Diary

Anna Staniszewski · 250 pages

After her parents' divorce, eighth-grader Rachel Lee joins her mother's new housecleaning business, which has her scrubbing bathrooms in her more popular classmates' homes and learning useful secrets.

Diary FormatMiddle GradeFirst Person NarratorFunny
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The Lost City of Faar

D.J. MacHale · 400 pages

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The Great Railroad Race: the Diary of Libby West

Kristiana Gregory · 203 pages

As the daughter of a newspaper reporter, fourteen-year-old Libby keeps a diary account of the exciting events surrounding her during the building of the railroad in the West in 1868.

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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 FormatMiddle GradeFirst Person NarratorFunny
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The Diary of a Killer Cat

Anne Fine · 60 pages

Poor Ellie is horrified when Tuffy drags a dead bird into the house. Then a mouse. But Tuffy can't understand what all the fuss is about.Who on earth will be the next victim to arrive through the cat-flap? Can soft-hearted Ellie manage to get her beloved pet to change his wild, wild ways before he ends up in even deeper trouble?The hilarious antics of Tuffy and his family are told by the killer ca

Diary FormatMiddle GradeFirst Person NarratorFunny
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House Arrest

K.A. Holt · 304 pages

Diary FormatMiddle GradeFirst Person NarratorMale Lead
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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 FormatFirst Person NarratorFunnyMiddle Grade

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