Teen Fiction in Journal Form
In Search of Mockingbird by Loretta Ellsworth
- Pub Date: 2007
- Middle and high school interest
- See also: Connecting with Books
- 16 year old Erin wants to be a writer. She keeps a journal on her trip from Minnesota to Alabama.
The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie by Jaclyn Moriarty
- Pub Date: 2006
- Middle and high school interest
- A humorous "mystery" told through Bindy's journal entries among other creative things such as notes, conversation transcripts, etc.
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
- Pub Date: 2006
- First in a series
- See also: Dystopia
- Miranda's journey documents her family's survival of a worldwide catastrophe.
This is All by Aidan Chambers
- Pub Date: 2006
- High school interest
- See also: Losing Virginity
- A "pillow book" kept by Cordelia documenting her teen years, including first love and first sex.
Angus Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging by Louise Renison
I'm Exploding Now by Sid Hite
- Pub Date: 2007
- High school interest
- Max starts writing whenever he feels the "i'm exploding" feeling at the suggestion of his aunt Ginny
The Day I Killed James by Catherine Ryan Hyde
- Pub Date: 2008
- High school interest
- Theresa's journal entries about her life after James' suicide.
Runaway by Wendelin Van Draanen
- Pub Date: 2006
- Middle school interest
- See also: Kids on their own
- Holly runs away from a foster home and travels across the country on her own while keeping a journal
The Memory Book by Lara Avery
- Pub Date: 2016
- High school interest
- Sammie writes in a journal as the rare degenerative disease she has progresses.
Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero
- Pub date: 2014
- High school interest
Swan Dive by Brenda Hasiuk
- Pub Date: 2019
- High School Interest
- See also: Outcasts, Historical
- Cris writes in his journal about his life after leaving Sarajevo.
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