Books You Might Like:
Diaries, Letters & Email
(Stories told in epistolary fashion)
The princess
diaries by Meg Cabot.
Fourteen-year-old
Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is
shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European
principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.7
Feeling sorry
for Celia by Jaclyn
Moriarty.
An epistolary
novel about a teenager named Elizabeth, made up of notes and letters from her
best friend, a runaway named Celia; Christina, the new pen pal Elizabeth
reluctantly takes on for a school assignment; her busy mother; and Elizabeth's
own angst-ridden mind.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.7
Walk softly,
Rachel by Kate Banks.
When
fourteen-year-old Rachel reads the journal of her brother, who died when she
was seven, she learns secrets that help her understand her parents and herself.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 3.7
Tangerine by Edward Bloor.
Paul Fisher, a
stellar soccer player despite being legally blind, finally comes into his own
when his family moves to the strange town of Tangerine, Florida.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.3
And in the
morning by John Wilson.
Canadian Jim Hay
joins the army in World War I and is sent to France where he meets a tragic
end.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.1
Angus, thongs
and full-frontal snogging : confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison.
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.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.1
On the bright
side, I'm now the girlfriend of a sex god : further confessions of Georgia
Nicolson by Louise
Rennison.
Fourteen-year-old
Georgia continues her diary in which she records her misadventures trying to
reclaim the attention of seventeen-year-old Robbie, while coping with her
friends, family, and dog-like cat Angus at the same time.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.7
Aimee : a novel
by Mary Beth Miller.
Zoe, a high
school senior, struggles to survive the aftermath of the suicide of her best
friend Aimee, and her own murder trial for her role in the incident, by writing
about her feelings in a journal.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.9
Witch child by Celia Rees.
In 1659,
fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to
the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans
near Salem, Massachusetts.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.0
Go ask Alice Author anonymous.
Fifteen-year-old
drug user chronicles her daily struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.6
Kim : empty
inside : the diary of an anonymous teenager by Beatrice Sparks.
Seventeen-year-old
Kim, feeling the pressure of maintaining an A average to stay on her college
gymnastics team, becomes obsessive about her weight and develops anorexia.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.5
Heart on my
sleeve by Ellen
Wittlinger.
From the end of
high school to the beginning of college, Chloe and Julian deal with major
changes in their families and friendships and explore their feelings for each
other through emails, letters, and a visit.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.5
Don't you dare
read this, Mrs. Dunphrey
by Margaret Peterson
Haddix.
In the journal
she is keeping for English class, sixteen-year-old Tish chronicles the changes
in her life when her abusive father abandons her and her brother, and her
mother follows him.
P.S. longer
letter later by Paula
Danziger & Ann M. Martin.
Twelve-year-old
best friends Elizabeth and Tara-Starr continue their friendship through
letter-writing after Tara-Starr's family moves to another state.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.5
The Grand
Tour, or, The purloined coronation regalia : being a revelation of matters of
high confidentiality and greatest importance, including extracts from the
intimate diary of a noblewoman and the sworn testimony of a lady of quality by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline
Stevermer.
In 1817, two
English cousins take a honeymoon "Grand Tour of the Continent" with
their new husbands and become entangled in a mysterious plot to create a
magical Emperor of Europe.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.2
Seek by Paul Fleischman.
Rob becomes
obsessed with searching the airwaves for his long-gone father, a radio
announcer.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.7
Breathing
underwater by Alex Flinn.
Sent to
counseling for hitting his girlfriend, Caitlin, and ordered to keep a journal,
sixteen-year-old Nick recounts his relationship with Caitlin, examines his
controlling behavior and anger, and describes living with his abusive father.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 3.9
Where have all
the flowers gone? : the diary of Molly Mackenzie Flaherty by Ellen Emerson White.
n 1968
Massachusetts, after her brother Patrick goes to fight in Vietnam,
fifteen-year-old Molly records in her diary how she misses her brother,
volunteers at a Veterans' Administration Hospital, and tries to make sense of
the war in Vietnam and the tumultuous events in the United States.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.8
A time for
courage : the suffragette diary of Kathleen Bowen by
Kathryn Lasky.
A diary account
of thirteen-year-old Kathleen Bowen's life in Washington, D.C. in 1917, as she
juggles concerns about the national battle for women's suffrage, the war in
Europe, and her own school work and family.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.9
A fine start by Kate McMullan.
Meg continues to
write in her diary about her family's adventures in the Kansas prairie in 1856
as they try to return to a more normal life after surviving a cholera epidemic,
separation, and invading Border Ruffians.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 3.4
Race for the
sky : the Kitty Hawk diaries of Johnny Moore by Dan Gutman.
Ordered to
practice his writing skills in the blank book his mother gave him,
fourteen-year-old Johnny would rather go fishing near his home on North
Carolina's Outer Banks and cannot think of anything important to write until
two "dingbatters" from Ohio arrive in 1900 and try to build a flying
machine.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.4
The journal of
Scott Pendleton Collins : a World War II soldier by
Walter Dean Myers.
A
seventeen-year-old soldier from central Virginia records his experiences in a
journal as his regiment takes part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and
subsequent battles to liberate France.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.0
Nonfiction
Annie's baby :
the diary of Anonymous, a pregnant teenager edited by
Beatrice Sparks.
A day-by-day
account of the life of an unnamed, pregnant, teenaged girl.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.7
It happened to
Nancy / by an anonymous
teenager edited
by Beatrice Sparks.
This is Nancy's
own story, taken from her diary. It reveals her personal feelings--from the
wonderful romantic fantasies of first love to the nightmare of AIDS.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.4
Jay's journal by Anonymous. Edited by Beatrice Sparks.
Jay's journal
reveals his growing involvement with witchcraft before his suicide at age 16.
Anne Frank :
the diary of a young girl translated
from the Dutch by B.M. Mooyaart-Doubleday ; with an introduction by Eleanor
Roosevelt.
A precocious
young girl is obliged by encroaching Nazi regime to live in enforced seclusion
with family and friends.
Accelerated
Reader--Level 6.5