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Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba, Angola, Africa, 1595

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Mary, Queen of Scots: Queen Without a Country

Kathryn Lasky · 202 pages

Mary, the young Scottish queen, is sent a diary from her mother in which she records her experiences living at the court of France's King Henry II as she awaits her marriage to Henry's son, Francis.

Diary FormatPrinces and PrincessesMiddle GradeHistorical Fiction
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Isabel: Jewel of Castilla, Spain, 1466

Carolyn Meyer · 204 pages

Isabel: Jewel of Castilla is a fictional diary of Isabella the first who reigned Castile (now Spain) in the 15th century. Isabel is the daughter of Juan II of Castilla and Isabel I of Portugal. Her father dies and her mother goes into a deep state of depression. Isabel’s brothers Enrique and Alfonso divide the kingdom, each proclaiming that they are the rightful king. They vie for control over Isa

Diary FormatPrinces and PrincessesMiddle GradeHistorical Fiction
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Kaiulani: The People's Princess, Hawaii, 1889

Ellen Emerson White · 238 pages

Follows the life of Victoria Kaiulani Cleghorn from 1889 to 1893 as she studies to be a better princess, even as Hawaii's monarchy, and her throne, are being undermined by American businessmen.

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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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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Royal Wedding Disaster

Meg Cabot · 282 pages

While helping her half-sister, the ruler of Genovia, prepare for her royal wedding, Princess Olivia finds herself facing snooty cousins, school, and princess lessons with Grandmère.

Diary FormatPrinces and PrincessesMiddle GradeFemale Lead
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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 FormatMiddle GradeCultural IdentityHistorical Fiction
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The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette

Carolly Erickson · 336 pages

Diary FormatPrinces and PrincessesHistorical FictionFemale Lead
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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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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.

Diary FormatMiddle GradeHistorical FictionFemale Lead
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Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards

Katelan Janke · 186 pages

In sixteen-year-old Katelan Janke's first Dear America book, we meet Grace Edwards, a little girl growing up in the heart of the Texas panhandle, in the midst of the Dust Bowl. Fierce, dust-filled winds ravage the plains and threaten the town's agricultural livelihood, creating poverty and despair among Grace's neighbors. Will her family's farm survive?

Diary FormatMiddle GradeHistorical FictionFemale Lead
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The Princess Diaries

Meg Cabot, megu kiyabotsuto · 301 pages

Diary FormatPrinces and PrincessesFemale LeadSeries
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Gold!

Grace Cavendish · 256 pages

Diary FormatMiddle GradeHistorical FictionFemale Lead
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I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina 1865 (Dear America Series)

Joyce Hansen · 202 pages

The two-time Coretta Scott King Honor Book recipient offers a poignant narrative about a freed slave girl during the Reconstruction Era in the South.

Diary FormatMiddle GradeHistorical FictionFemale Lead
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A Prairie as Wide as the Sea: The Immigrant Diary of Ivy Weatherall

Sarah Ellis · 206 pages

Mai 1926. Originaires d'Angleterre, Evelyn Weatherall, 11 ans, et sa famille émigrent en Saskatchewan après avoir été influencées par la publicité idyllique de l'immigration au Canada. Dans son journal, la fillette relate le quotidien de sa famille (les difficultés de ses parents à trouver un travail stable, l'obligation de son frère aîné à travailler pour payer les dettes de son oncle, les différ

Diary FormatMiddle GradeHistorical FictionFemale Lead
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Down the Rabbit Hole, Chicago, Illinois, 1871: The Diary of Pringle Rose

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

It is 1871 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and fourteen-year-old Pringle Rose, still grieving from the death of her parents, takes her brother Gideon, who has Down syndrome, escapes from her uncle and aunt, and takes a train to Chicago--but disaster seems to follow her there.

Diary FormatMiddle GradeHistorical FictionFemale Lead
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My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck, Long Island, New York 1941

Mary Pope Osborne · 186 pages

It is the Fall of 1941 and Madeline Beck is living with her mother at Mrs. Hawkins' Mansion-by-the-Sea, a boarding house on Long Island. Her father has been sent off to guard the Pacific coast on an aircraft carrier, and Madeline is very scared of all that she hears about the impending War in the Pacific. Will her Dad be alright? What if the Japanese decide to attack? Along with her worries about

Diary FormatMiddle GradeHistorical FictionFemale Lead
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Deception

Grace Cavendish, Patricia Finney · 200 pages

Diary FormatMiddle GradeHistorical FictionFemale Lead

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