Cushman, Karen. Catherine Called Birdy.
Catherine begins a diary during her 14th year. Her diary is filled with pranks
and gossip. Then her father tries to find a suitor for her. Her tricks scare
off all but one, Shaggy Beard.
Danziger, Paula and Ann M. Martin. P.S. Longer Letter Later.
Twelve-year-old best friends Elizabeth and Tara-Starr continue their friendship
through letter-writing after Tara-Starr’s family moves to another state.
**Read the Sequel Snail Mail No More**
Reese, Celia. Witch Child.
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.
Tashjian, Janet. Tru Confessions.
Computer-literate, twelve-year-old Tru keeps an electronic diary where she
documents her desire to cure her handicapped twin brother and her plan to
create a television show.
Webster, Jean. Daddy Long Legs.
Orphaned Judy Abbot relates her college adventures in letters to the mysterious
benefactor that she calls Daddy-Long-Legs.
Hesse, Karen. Letters from Rifka.
In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family's flight
from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when she must be left in Belgium
for a while when the others emigrate to America.
Filipovic, Zlata. Zlata’s Diary.
The harsh realities of the Bosnian conflict are brought to life in this chronicle.
Begun in late 1991 when Zlata was ten, the typical musings of a young schoolgirl
confiding in her diary are increasingly overtaken by accounts of the horrors
of life in besieged Sarajevo.