Dear Diary
Dear Diary,
There are so many great diary books in the LMC. I don’t know which one to choose! I love stories told in a first-person voice or in diary format… maybe even letters will do. I guess I’ll use the list below to find the right one for me!
XOXO, Highcrest Hawk
Diary Books (Stand-Alone)
Always Abigail - Nancy J. Cavanaugh
The Amazing Adventures of John Smith, Jr. AKA Houdini - Peter Johnson
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple - Karen Cushman
The Carver Chronicles: Trouble Next Door - Karen English
Catherine, Called Birdy - Karen Cushman
Middle School is Worse Than Meatloaf - Jennifer L. Holm
The Night Diary - Veera Hiranandani
This Journal Belongs to Ratchet - Nancy J. Cavanaugh
Diary Series
Dear America [series] - Various authors (Use Historical Fiction list!)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid [series] - Jeff Kinney
Dork Diaries [series] - Rachel Renee Russell
Ellie McDoodle [series] - Ruth McNally Barshaw
The Popularity Papers - Amy Ignatow
Timmy Failure [series] - Stephan Pastis
Funny First Person Narrative
Charlie Joe Jackson’s Guide to NOT Reading [series] - Tommy Greenwald
How to Survive Middle School - Donna Gephart
Laugh Out Loud - James Patterson
Pen Pals
Anything but Typical - Nora Raleigh Baskin
I Will Always Write Back - Martin Ganda [nonfiction!]
Love, Aubrey - Suzanne LaFleur
Same Sun Here - Silas House & Neela Vaswani
Speed of Life - Carol Weston