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A Not-So-Simple Life

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My Name is Chloe

Melody Carlson, Andy Stanley · 288 pages

An intelligent but insecure fifteen-year-old aspiring musician, who sports off-beat clothes, spiked hair, and multiple piercings, questions the existence of God until she meets Him head-on in a graveyard.

Diary FormatTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultChristian Fiction
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Hollywood Nobody

Lisa Samson, Timothy Penland · 221 pages

Fifteen-year-old Scotty Dawn has spent her young life on the road, traveling to movie sets with her single mom, Charley, a food designer. Yet even though Scotty is wise beyond her years, she still struggles to find her identity. Complicating matters is a mother who offers no guidance and a father she's never met. Now Scotty is determined to discover what she wants from life. She's even documenting

Diary FormatTeen ProtagonistChristian FictionYoung 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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The Princess Diaries Collection

Meg Cabot · 280 pages

THE PRINCESS DIARIES WHAT? A Princess? ME??? YEAH, RIGHT. 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 ha

Diary FormatTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultSeries Starter
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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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My So-Called Life

Joanna Nadin · 304 pages

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Truth or Dairy

Catherine Clark · 268 pages

This is the journal of Courtney Von Dragen Smith: middle child, product of divorce, would-be vegetarian. She writes the first mega-negative page the day after her boyfriend, "such a Dave," breaks up with her because he's heading off to college. Angry and humiliated, Courtney vows to survive senior year on the anti-guy plan. But can she really give up guys and focus on friends, school, and her job

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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

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The Way We Fall

Megan Crewe · 309 pages

*It starts with an itch you just can't shake. Then comes a fever and a tickle in your throat. A few days later, you'll be blabbing your secrets and chatting with strangers like they’re old friends. Three more, and the paranoid hallucinations kick in.* And then you're dead.* When sixteen-year-old Kaelyn lets her best friend leave for school without saying goodbye, she never dreams that she mig

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The Carbon Diaries 2015

Saci Lloyd · 379 pages

In 2015, when England becomes the first nation to introduce carbon dioxide rationing in a drastic bid to combat climate change, sixteen-year-old Laura documents the first year of rationing as her family spirals out of control.

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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.

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Girls in Love

Jacqueline Wilson · 160 pages

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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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Diary of a Haunting

M. Verano · 316 pages

Following her parents high-profile divorce, Paige and her brother are forced to move to Idaho with their mother, and Paige doesn t have very high hopes for her new life. The small town they ve moved to is nothing compared to the life she left behind in LA. And the situation is made even worse by the drafty old mansion they ve rented that s filled with spiders and plenty of other pests that Paige

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The Princess Diaries

Meg Cabot, megu kiyabotsuto · 301 pages

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Heaven Is Paved with Oreos

Catherine Gilbert Murdock · 252 pages

Fourteen-year-old Sarah keeps a journal of her pilgrimage to Rome with her eccentric grandmother, Z, her evolving relationship with best friend Curtis, and daily conversations with Curtis's sister and star athlete, D.J.

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Dear Cassie

Lisa Burstein · 352 pages

What if the last place you should fall in love is the first place that you do?You'd think getting sent to Turning Pines Wilderness Camp for a month-long rehabilitation "retreat" and being forced to re-live it in this journal would be the worst thing that's ever happened to me.You'd be wrong.There's the reason I was sent to Turning Pines in the first place: I got arrested. On prom night. With my tw

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Life As We Knew It

Susan Beth Pfeffer · 356 pages

Miranda lives a normal life in a normal family. When an asteroid is scheduled to hit the moon, nobody realized that it would change the world forever. Together with her family, Miranda must struggle to survive and hope for help.

Diary FormatYoung AdultTeen ProtagonistSeries
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Stray

Andrea K. Host · 478 pages

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Terrier

Tamora Pierce · 581 pages

BEKA COOPER IS a rookie with the Provost's Guard, and she's been assigned to the Lower City. It's a tough beat, but Beka can hear the voices of the dead on the wings of pigeons, and Beka's birds clue her in to two major murderers on the loose. The rest of the Guard is busy investigating the fire opal killer, so it's up to Beka to nab the Shadow Snake.Tamora Pierce begins a new Tortall trilogy int

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Lost for Words

Alice Kuipers

Sixteen-year-old Sophie struggles to find normalcy after an incident she chooses not to remember took her sister's life, and by keeping a journal, making a new friend, and seeing a therapist she finally begins to recover.

Diary FormatTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultFemale Lead
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Piper Perish

Kayla Cagan · 410 pages

Piper Perish and her two friends, Kit and Enzo, have long planned on getting out of Houston and going to art school in New York City together, but halfway through their senior year Enzo breaks up with her at a dance in the most public, spectacular, and embarrassing manner possible--and suddenly Piper is faced with a series of life and relationship changing events that threaten her dream.

Diary FormatTeen ProtagonistYoung AdultFemale Lead

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