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The Problem with Here Is That It's Where I'm From

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Frenemies forever

Rachel Renee Russell · 368 pages

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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 FormatLightheartedIllustrated BookMiddle Grade
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The Brilliant World of Tom Gates

Liz Pichon · 256 pages

“Tom Gates can easily be seen as a British cousin to Jeff Kinney’s Greg Heffley.” —Publishers Weekly Meet Tom Gates. When his teachers don’t have their beady eyes on him, he likes to draw pictures and write about stuff. Tom’s teachers think he is easily distracted and “lacks focus,” but that’s a bit harsh—can he help it if his grumpy big sister, Delia, made him late for school (again), or that

Diary FormatLightheartedMiddle GradeIllustrated Book
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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.

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Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas

Louise Rennison · 183 pages

The saga of fourteen-year-old Georgia Nicolson continues as she travels to Scotland on a nightmarish family vacation, confesses her anxiety over being the girlfriend of a sex god, and tests the limits of true friendship.

Diary FormatLightheartedMiddle GradeFirst Person Narrator
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Catherine, Called Birdy

Karen Cushman · 218 pages

¨Catherine's mother wants to teach her the skills of the lady of the manor and to prepare her to be a gentle and patient wife. Her father only wants her to be married off, and profitably. Catherine herself hopes to become a painter, a Crusader, a maker of songs, a peddlar, a monk, a ministrel, a wart charmer... Of all the possibilities, she has ruled out only one: being sold like cheese to the hig

Diary FormatLightheartedMiddle GradeFirst Person Narrator
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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.

Diary FormatLightheartedFirst Person NarratorFunny
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The Popularity Papers

Amy Ignatow · 206 pages

Two best friends embark on a project to study the behavior and taste of the popular girls at their elementary school so that by the time they get to middle school they too will be in the right crowd. Novel appears in the form of a scrapbook.

Diary FormatLightheartedMiddle GradeFunny
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Big Nate: In a Class by Himself

Lincoln Peirce · 224 pages

Supremely confident middle school student Nate Wright manages make getting detention from every one of his teachers in the same day seem like an achievement.

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Clementine

Sara Pennypacker · 136 pages

While sorting through difficulties in her friendship with her neighbor Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine gains several unique hairstyles while also helping her father in his efforts to banish pigeons from the front of their apartment building.

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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Helen Fielding · 422 pages

*The Edge of Reason* is the sequel to Helen Fielding's number one best-selling Bridget Jones's Diary. It has been turned into a film starring Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. *Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason* is followed by *Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy*. *The Wilderness Years* are over! But not for long. At the end of *Bridget Jones's Diary*, Bridget hiccuped off into the sunset

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The Princess Diaries

Meg Cabot, megu kiyabotsuto · 301 pages

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My So-Called Life

Joanna Nadin · 304 pages

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The Provincial Lady in London

E.M. Delafield · 302 pages

The provincial lady finds an apartment in London, visits nightclubs and casinos, and meets the intellectuals and eccentrics of London society.

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Middle School: How I Survived Bullies, Broccoli, and Snake Hill

James Patterson, Chris Tebbetts · 320 pages

When Rafe Khatchadorian is sent to Camp Wannamorra, he teams up with his bunkmates to fend off the more popular kids' plans to ruin their summer

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Diary of a Mad Bride

Laura Wolf · 294 pages

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The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword

Anne Mazer · 128 pages

Diary FormatMiddle GradeLightheartedFunny
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Amelia's Notebook

Marissa Moss · 32 pages

The hand-lettered contents of a nine-year-old girl's notebook, in which she records her thoughts and feelings about moving, starting school, and dealing with her older sister, as well as keeping her old best friend and making a new one.

Diary FormatIllustrated BookMiddle GradeFemale Lead
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Cat and Mouse in a Haunted House

Geronimo Stilton, Elisabetta Dami · 111 pages

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My Name Is Stilton, Geronimo Stilton

Geronimo Stilton · 102 pages

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The Lottie Project

Jacqueline Wilson · 203 pages

I don't want to do a boring old project. Who wants to be like everyone else? I'm doing a diary ... Hi! I'm Charlie (DON'T call me Charlotte - ever!). History is boring, right? Wrong! The Victorians weren't all deadly dull and drippy. Lottie certainly isn't. She's eleven - like me - but she's left school and has a job as a nursery maid. Her life is really hard, just work work work, but I bet she'd

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My Name Is Mina

David Almond · 300 pages

Creative, intelligent, nine-year-old Mina keeps a journal in her own disorderly way that reveals how her mind is growing into something extraordinary, especially after she begins homeschooling under the direction of her widowed mother.

Diary FormatMiddle GradeFirst Person NarratorFemale Lead
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