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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Rocky Road Trip of Lydia Goldblatt & Julie Graham-Chang
Amy Ignatow · 204 pages
"It's summer break, and Julie and Lydia are going on a road trip! After all the ups and downs of their first year in junior high, they're looking forward to seeing the sights and visiting friends and relatives all across the USA."--P. [4] of cover.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: #1-5 [Box Set]
Jeff Kinney
Dear Mr. Henshaw
Beverly Cleary · 134 pages
Our Strange New Land
Patricia Hermes · 109 pages
Nine-year-old Elizabeth keeps a journal of her experiences in the New World as she encounters Indians, suffers hunger and the death of friends, and helps her father build their first home.
Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess
Richard Platt · 93 pages
What was it really like to live in a castle? Step back to the Middle Ages with *Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess*. Eleven-year-old Toby’s vivid diary entries offer an insider’s view of day-to-day castle life, including tips on etiquette (where do you spit at a feast?) and exciting descriptions of hunting, jousting, and harvesting. Complete with glossary, index, and detailed endnot
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
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
One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss
Barry Denenberg · 256 pages
Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time
James Gurney · 159 pages
Professor Denison, the intrepid 19th-century explorer, is back! Some time ago, the professor discovered a lost island where humans and dinosaurs dwell in harmony. Now the professor and Bix, his dinosaur companion, have been summoned to the forbidden empire of Chandara. But when they lose their invitation from the emperor, the adventurers must cross the border penniless and in disguise. A vivid
The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips
Michael Morpurgo · 192 pages
When Boowie reads the diary that his grandmother sends him, he learns of her childhood in World War II England when American and British soldiers practiced for D-Day's invasion in the area of her home, and about her beloved cat, Adolphus Tip, and the cat's namesake.
Ghost in the Machine
Patrick Carman · 207 pages
Although forbidden to see each other, Ryan and Sarah continue their investigation of the mysterious happenings at the dredge by communicating through video clips, text messages, midnight meetings, and journaling. The reader may view videos on a website by using links and passwords found in the text.
This Journal Belongs to Ratchet
Nancy J. Cavanaugh · 307 pages
Homeschooled by her mechanic-environmentalist father, eleven-year-old Rachel "Ratchet" Vance records her efforts to make friends, save a park, remember her mother, and find her own definition of "normal."
Like the Willow Tree: The Diary of Lydia Amelia Pierce, Portland, Maine, 1918
Lois Lowry · 224 pages
After being orphaned during the influenza epidemic of 1918, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her fourteen-year-old brother are taken by their grieving uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake. Includes author's note about the Shakers.
Brothers Far from Home: The World War I Diary of Eliza Bates
Jean Little · 235 pages
In 1916, in Uxbridge, Ontario, twelve-year-old Eliza, a Presbyterian minister's daughter, chronicles her family's experiences after her two brothers leave for Europe to fight in the war.
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.
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.
More Perfect Than the Moon
Patricia MacLachlan · 80 pages
My Brother's Keeper
Mary Pope Osborne · 110 pages
In 1863, as the Civil War approaches her quiet town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, nine-year-old Virginia records in a journal the horrible things she witnesses before, during, and after the Battle of Gettysburg.
School. Hasn't This Gone on Long Enough?
Jim Benton · 160 pages
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.
School, Drool, and Other Daily Disasters
Rachel Vail · 245 pages
Clarice Bean Spells Trouble
Lauren Child · 189 pages
Clarice Bean, aspiring actress and author, unsuccessfully tries to avoid getting into trouble as she attempts to help a friend in need by following the rules of the fictional, "exceptionordinarily" spy, Ruby Redfort.