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Boys Don't Knit (in Public)

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My So-Called Life

Joanna Nadin · 304 pages

Self-Deprecating HumorDiary FormatTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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All-American Girl

Meg Cabot · 288 pages

A sophomore girl stops a presidential assassination attempt, is appointed Teen Ambassador to the United Nations, and catches the eye of the very cute First Son.

Self-Deprecating HumorDiary FormatTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

Louise Rennison · 247 pages

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.

Diary FormatSelf-Deprecating HumorTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Adrian Mole: From Minor to Major

Sue Townsend · 491 pages

Diary FormatSelf-Deprecating HumorTeen ProtagonistFirst Person Narrator
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The Princess Diaries

Meg Cabot, megu kiyabotsuto · 301 pages

Diary FormatSelf-Deprecating HumorTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Girls, Girls, Girls

Jonah Black · 233 pages

The Black Books: Diary of a Teenage Stud is a revolutionary new fiction series: a no-holds-barred, darkly comic take on one seventeen-year-old's inner life. Jonah Black chronicles his shrouded-in-mystery return from boarding school and his reentry into a life he'd left behind. His Proustian eye for detail and self-deprecating humor combined with his sexual appetite unique to the seventeen-year-old

Diary FormatTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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Awkward

Marni Bates · 259 pages

When a humiliating accident at school is captured on video and posted on the Internet, clumsy Mackenzie is turned into an overnight Internet sensation, and is sucked into the world of rock stars, paparazzi, and worldwide popularity.

Self-Deprecating HumorTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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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 FormatSelf-Deprecating HumorTeen ProtagonistFirst Person Narrator
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Sherman Alexie · 256 pages

Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

Self-Deprecating HumorDiary FormatTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Diary of a Chav

Grace Dent

Fifteen-year-old Shiraz Bailey Wood's days are filled with hanging around outside Claire's Accessories, her parents work crap jobs, and her school is pretty much loser central. But this loveable British dreamer with a brain and a heart of gold is beginning to feel there might be a lot more to life than minimum wage and the bling of a souped-up car.

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French Kiss

Sarra Manning · 209 pages

New town, new college, new people, Edie's feeling overwhelmed. What if nobody wants to be her friend? But then something happens that turns her life upside down: Edie spots Dylan. Messy-haired, pouty, frustratingly elusive Dylan. Fast forward to the college trip to Paris and things are really heating up. In between the shopping, the clubbing, the kissing, and the making up, something happens betwe

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Carter's Unfocused, One-Track Mind

Brent Crawford · 304 pages

Fifteen-year-old WIll Carter's sophomore year at Merrian High presents new problems, from the return of Scary Terry to friends-with-benefits negotiations with Abby, but when Abby considers transferring to a New York arts school Carter's world is turned upside-down.

Self-Deprecating HumorTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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Girls in Love

Jacqueline Wilson · 160 pages

Diary FormatTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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Tales from a Not-So-Happy Heartbreaker

Rachel Renee Russell · 340 pages

Middle-school drama queen Nikki Maxwell worries about asking a boy to her school's "sweetheart dance."

Self-Deprecating HumorDiary FormatTeen ProtagonistFirst Person Narrator
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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 HumorTeen ProtagonistFirst Person NarratorFunny
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You Are So Undead to Me

Stacey Jay

Q: HOW MANY ZOMBIES DOES IT TAKE TO RUIN A SOCIAL LIFE?A: NOT MANY.Megan Berry is a Zombie Settler by birth, which means she's part-time shrink to a whole bunch of semi-dead people with killer issues. All Megan really wants is to go to homecoming, but when you're trailed by a bunch of slobbering corpses whenever you leave the house, it's kinda hard to score a date. Let's just say Megan's love life

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Sophomores and Other Oxymorons

David Lubar · 419 pages

Scott Hudson has somehow managed to survive Freshman year. But with a new baby brother in the house and a whole host of adventures awaiting him at school, Sophomore year promises to be anything but boring.

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Alice, I Think

Susan Juby · 290 pages

Fifteen-year-old Alice keeps a diary as she struggles to cope with the embarrassments and trials of family, dating, school, work, small town life, and a serious case of "outcastitis."

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Diary FormatTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultFunny
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Model Misfit

Holly Smale

Self-Deprecating HumorTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultFunny
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The Seeing Stone

Kevin Crossley-Holland · 340 pages

In late twelfth-century England, a thirteen-year-old boy named Arthur recounts how Merlin gives him a magical seeing stone which shows him images of the legendary King Arthur, the events of whose life seem to have many parallels to his own.

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Second Helpings

Megan McCafferty · 349 pages

Self-Deprecating HumorTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator

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