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Fictional diaries

Here are some great books written as if they were diaries - just the thing for holiday reading.

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Walk softly Rachel by Kate Banks
Rachel’s brother Jake died in car accident when she was seven. Though her parents rarely talk of Jake, they have left his room as it was before his death. On a visit to Jake’s room Rachel finds his journal and begins to filter his experiences through her own, reclaiming some of the brother she has never really known.
Tangerine by Edward Bloor
Paul Fisher is legally blind and wears glasses so thick he looks like a bug-eyed alien. Paul does not mind the glasses because with them he can see. He can see the constant praise of his brother Erik by his parents is covering up something that is terribly wrong, but no one listens to Paul, until his family move to Tangerine.
Tangerine is like another planet, where anything is possible. Soon, Paul finds himself adopted in the toughest group around - the soccer team, and where the blind can see, geeks are cool and maybe a twelve year old can stand up to his terrifying brother.
The princess diaries by Meg Cabot
Mia Thermopolis is 14 years old and lives in New York with her artistic mother, however life is about to change as Mia discovers she is to become the new Princess of Genovia, a small European principality ruled by her father’s family. This is part of a trilogy, The Princess Diaries: Take Two and The Princess Diaries: Third Time Lucky and has also been made into a movie.
Catherine, called BirdyCatherine, called Birdy by Karen Cushman
Catherine’s mother wants to teach her the skills of the lady of the manor, her father wants only to see her married off, and profitably. Catherine hopes to be a crusader, a painter, a maker of songs, a peddler, a minstrel, a monk, a wart charmer… Against a vivid background of everyday life on a medieval English manor, Catherine’s earthy, spirited account of her fourteenth year is a richly entertaining story with an utterly unforgettable heroine.
The life history of a star by Kelly Easton
Kristin Folger feels like she’s on another planet. Her body keeps changing shape, her mother wants her to dress like a girl, her best friend’s dating a weirdo, her grandmother seems to be getting younger and there is a ghost in the family’s attic whom no one wants to talk about. Set during the 1970’s, Kristin navigates the internal and external at top speed, writing a comical and always thoughtful diary about what her life has been like since the ghost arrived. It takes a lot of time and an unforgettable family session for Kristin to begin to learn whom the ghost was - and who he still is. And where on earth she fits in.
Breathing Underwater by Alex Flinn
Nick is one of the chosen few at his school: intelligent, popular, and wealthy. Except Nick has a violent temper. When Nick meets Caitlin, he thinks that she is the answer to all his problems, and everything he has ever wanted - beautiful, talented, and in love with him. But then it all changes and Nick learns the truth about himself - and that the phrase “like father like son” can carry terrifying possibilities.
The other face of JanusThe other face of Janus by Louise Katz
Edwina Nearly has problems, her neighbours are fanatical control freaks, her mother writes software programmes by day, belly dances by night and is making herself miserable by dating a series of unsuitable men. Her brother is robotic and now her diary is writing back to her, offering advice unwanted advice.
A trip to the Art Gallery sees Edwina falling into the world of a painting titled “The Garden of Earthly Delights” and finds she is able to come and go from the painting to her home. Weird but also seductive, especially when she meets the beautiful and complex Janus - who looks a lot like Paul, a boy Edwina would like to know better. Against the advice of her diary she finds herself rushing headlong into love.
Take my word for it by John Marsden
'You know what Tracey said to me after English today? She said: the reason you’ve got no friends is that you don’t tell anyone your problems’. Strong, cold, private…this is Lisa, as seen by Marina in her journal, So Much to Tell You. But Lisa too keeps a journal, a record of her family and friends, her frustrations and successes, her thoughts and feelings. As the pages follow each other Lisa begins to emerge not always strong, not always private and certainly not cold.
Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging: confessions of Georgia NicolsonAngus, thongs and full-frontal snogging: confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison
Georgia Nicolson is a 14 year old girl bursting into womanhood who writes several entries in her diary for each day.
Saturday
6.59pm Lindsay was wearing a thong! I don’t understand thongs - what is the point of them? They just go up your bum, as far as I can tell!
The two sequels are It’s okay; I’m wearing really big knickers! further confessions of Georgia Nicolson and Knocked out by my Nunga-Nungas: further, further confessions of Georgia Nicolson