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Kaiulani: The People's Princess, Hawaii, 1889

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My Heart is on the Ground: the Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl, Carlisle Indian School, Pennsylvania, 1880

Ann Rinaldi · 205 pages

In the diary account of her life at a government-run Pennsylvania boarding school in 1880, a twelve-year-old Sioux Indian girl reveals a great need to find a way to help her people.

Diary FormatColonialismBoarding SchoolMiddle Grade
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Kristina: The Girl King, Sweden, 1638

Carolyn Meyer · 170 pages

Carolyn Meyer, author of best-selling ROYAL DIARIES Isabel and Anastasia, now brings to the series this compelling story of Kristina, The Girl King, from 17th-century Sweden. Upon discovering that their newborn infant was, in fact, female and not male as first thought, Queen Marie Eleonore wailed inconsolably and King Gustavus Adolphus declared, nevertheless, that the child be raised as a princ

Diary FormatPrinces and PrincessesMiddle GradeHistorical Fiction
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Elisabeth: The Princess Bride, Austria - Hungary, 1853

Barry Denenberg · 151 pages

The diary of Princess Elisabeth, written in 1853-1854, describing her engagement and marriage to her cousin Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria. Includes historical notes concerning her life as Empress.

Diary FormatPrinces and PrincessesMiddle GradeHistorical Fiction
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Jahanara: Princess of Princesses

Kathryn Lasky · 186 pages

Beginning in 1627, Princess Jahanara, first daughter of Shah Jahan of India's Mogul Dynasty, writes in her diary about political intrigues, weddings, battles, and other experiences of her life. Includes historical notes on Jahanara's later life and on the Mogul Empire.

Diary FormatPrinces and PrincessesMiddle GradeHistorical Fiction
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Princess Mia

Meg Cabot · 288 pages

A princess on her own . . . Mia has been invited to speak at a gala for Domina Rei, an elite society of powerful businesswomen. But what could she possibly have to say? Now that Michael has broken things off, Mia can barely get out of bed, and her parents are making her see a "therapist." School, where Lilly still refuses to speak to her and Lana suddenly wants to be bff, is a total nightmare.

Diary FormatPrinces and PrincessesBoarding SchoolFemale Lead
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The Princess Diaries

Meg Cabot, megu kiyabotsuto · 301 pages

Diary FormatPrinces and PrincessesBoarding SchoolFemale Lead
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Diary FormatPrinces and PrincessesMiddle GradeHistorical Fiction
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Lady of Palenque : Flower of Bacal, Mesoamerica, A.D. 749

Anna Kirwan · 204 pages

In 749, the Maya princess Green Jay, of the Kingdom of Bacal, writes in her diary about her arduous journey to Xukpip to meet King Fire Keeper, her future husband.

Diary FormatPrinces and PrincessesMiddle GradeHistorical Fiction
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A Brief History of Montmaray

Michelle Cooper · 304 pages

"There's a fine line between gossip and history, when one is talking about kings."Sophie Fitzosborne lives in a crumbling castle in the tiny island kingdom of Montmaray with her eccentric and impoverished royal family. When she receives a journal for her sixteenth birthday, Sophie decides to chronicle day-to-day life on the island. But this is 1936, and the news that trickles in from the mainland

Diary FormatPrinces and PrincessesHistorical FictionFemale Lead
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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 FormatBoarding SchoolMiddle GradeFemale Lead
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Diary FormatColonialismHistorical FictionSeries
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The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette

Carolly Erickson · 336 pages

Diary FormatPrinces and PrincessesHistorical FictionFemale Lead
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Diary FormatPrinces and PrincessesHistorical FictionRoyal Court
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Diary FormatPrinces and PrincessesFemale LeadHistorical Fiction
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A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861

Karen Hesse · 176 pages

Thursday, February 28, 1861 P. Cloudy. Wind N.W. Fresh Mr.Lincoln has arrived at last in Washington.... In one week, he inherits the trouble of this great, unhappy country. In one week, the responsibility will be his--whether we come together again a Union,or fall entirely to pieces. And here we sit, in Delaware, on the border between North and South, half the state hauling slaves, half the sta

Diary FormatMiddle GradeHistorical FictionIsland
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Deception

Grace Cavendish, Patricia Finney · 200 pages

Diary FormatMiddle GradeHistorical FictionRoyal Court
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Assassin

Grace Cavendish · 201 pages

WHEN MARGARET CAVENDISH, one of Elizabeth I's Gentlewomen of the Bedchamber, lost her life in a bungled attempt to kill the Queen, her daughter, Lady Grace, became a protegee to the monarch, who takes Grace under her wing. Now Grace, a spunky girl who romps through the gardens with the laundry maids and court tumblers and rolls her eyes at her fellow ladies, chronicles the court intrigues that swi

Diary FormatMiddle GradeHistorical FictionFemale Lead
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Princess Academy

Shannon Hale · 314 pages

Boarding SchoolPrinces and PrincessesMiddle GradeSeries
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I Walk in Dread: The Diary of Deliverance Trembley, Witness to the Salem Witch Trials, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1691

Lisa Rowe Fraustino · 240 pages

Deliverance Trembley lives in Salem Village where she must take care of her sickly sister, Mem, and where she does her daily chores in fear of her cruel uncle's angry temper. But after four young girls from the village accuse some of the local women of being witches, the town becomes increasingly caught up in a witch hunt. When the villagers begin to realize that Deliverance is a clever girl who p

Diary FormatMiddle GradeHistorical FictionFemale Lead
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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

Diary FormatMiddle GradeHistorical FictionFemale Lead
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Hard Luck

Jeff Kinney · 224 pages

Greg Heffley and his family and friends are back in Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 8, the latest installment in the #1 bestselling series by Jeff Kinney and one of the most anticipated books of 2013. A global phenomenon, the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series has more than 85 million books in print around the world. Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and

Diary FormatBoarding SchoolMiddle GradeSeries
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Queen Song

Victoria Aveyard · 55 pages

In this prequel novella set in the world of Red Queen, Queen Coriane, first wife of King Tiberias, keeps a secret diary - how else can she ensure that no one at the palace will use her thoughts against her? Coriane recounts her heady courtship with the crown prince, the birth of a new prince, Cal, and the potentially deadly challenges that lay ahead for her in royal life.

Diary FormatPrinces and PrincessesFemale LeadSeries
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Ash Princess

Laura Sebastian · 437 pages

Theodosia was six when her country was invaded and her mother, the Fire Queen, was murdered before her eyes. On that day, the Kaiser took Theodosia s family, her land, and her name. Theo was crowned Ash Princess a title of shame to bear in her new life as a prisoner. For ten years, the Ash Princess has seen her land pillaged and her people enslaved. That all ends here.

Princes and PrincessesColonialismFemale LeadRoyal Court
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