When his small sloop sank west of the Canary Islands, Callahan was
left adrift in the Atlantic in a small, inflatable raft with three pounds
of food and eight pints of water.
Required to keep a journal for sophomore English class, but allowed to
mark those entries she doesn't want her teacher to read, Tish begins to
describe her difficult life.
This autobiography is based on a journal Hailey began before her
junior year in high school when she decided to become self-educated or an
"autodidact."
Hamilton, Morse. Effie's House. 1990.
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Running away from her mother and pregnant by her stepfather,
16-year-old Bizzy faithfully records her feelings and secrets in a
journal.
Three female students from Ashbury High write to three male students
from rival Brookfield High as part of a pen pal program, leading to
romance, humiliation, revenge plots, and war between the schools.
In her journal, Jody describes the gradual disintegration of her
family when her 14-year-old brother Michael disappears and the family
spends the next year frantically searching for him.
Through journal entries, Harriet Hemings, the daughter of Thomas
Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings, describes the conflict she
experiences when faced with the choice of remaining a slave or leaving
Monticello for a life of freedom in which she will pass for white.
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.
Nell's year-long journal begins in 1899 when she is so devastated by
the idea of marrying a man she doesn't want that she subconsciously begins
to starve herself.
In the form of journal entries addressed to his psychiatrist, an
unhappy teenaged boy tells of his adventures abroad when he flies to
Zurich on a whim and becomes involved in romance and international
intrigue.
On his fifteenth birthday, Eugene begins a diary in which he records
all the bizarre events of the summer he spends as a waiter at a ritzy
resort in the Adironack Mountains.
