Ravenstone Press - Bibliography - Children as Writers of Diaries & Journals

Ravenstone Press *Stories of Kansas and the Great Plains*
Bibliography: Children as Writers of Diaries & Journals

Writers of Diaries and Journals & Other Forms of Writing (including class assignments) - Children's Fiction

Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie:
The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell by Kristiana Gregory, 1997
Amelia Hits the Road by Marissa Moss, 1997
Amelia Writes Again by Marissa Moss, 1996
Amelia's Family Ties by Marissa Moss, 2000
Amelia's Notebook by Marissa Moss, 1995
Birdie's Lighthouse by Deborah Hopkinson, 1997
Brooklyn Doesn't Rhyme by Joan W. Blos, 1994
By Lizzie by Mary Eccles, 2001.
Catty-Cornered by Cheryl Ware, 1998.
Coast to Coast With Alice by Patricia Rusch Hyatt, 1995.
Crandall's Castle* by Betty Ren Wright, 2003.
Dear Mr. Henshaw* by Beverly Cleary, 1983 (Newbery Medal)
The Death of Evening Star: The Diary of a Young New England Whaler
by Leonard Everett Fisher, 1972
Diary of a Monster's Son by Ellen Conford, 1999
Dreams in the Golden Country:
The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, A Jewish Immigrant Girl by Kathryn Lasky,
1998

For Your Eyes Only by Joanne Rocklin, 1997
A Gathering of Days: a New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32: a novel
by Joan W. Blos, 1979
The Ghost of Fossil Glen* by Cynthia DeFelice, 1998.
Good mystery and ghost story as well.
A Gift for Jo by Susan Beth Pfeiffer, 1999
The Great Green Notebook of Katie Roberts: Who Just Turned 12 on Monday
by Amy Hest, 1998
Heads or Tails: Stories From the Sixth Grade by Jack Gantos, 1994
Hometown Hero by Barbara Aiello, 1989
I Can't Believe I Have to Do This* by Jan Alford, 1997. Wonderful voice, sensitive
exploration of peer pressure and friendship.
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl
by Joyce Hansen, 1997

Jorah's Journal by Judith Caseley, 1997
The Journal of James Edmond Pease: A Civil War Union Soldier
by Jim Murphy, 1998
The Journal of Joshua Loper: A Black Cowboy by Walter Dean Myers, 1999
The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: A World War II Soldier
by Walter Dean Myers, 1999
The Journal of Sean Sullivan: a Transcontinental Railroad Worker
by William Durbin, 1999
The Journal of William Thomas Emerson: A Revolutionary War Patriot
by Barry Denenberg, 1998
A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple
by Kathryn Lasky, 1996

My Heart Is On the Ground: The Diary of Nannie Little Rose, A Sioux Girl
by Ann Rinaldi, 1999
Mississippi Mud: Three Prairie Journals by Anne Turner, 1997.
These are in the form of poems.
The Music of Dolphins by Karen Hesse, 1996
North by Night: A Story of the Underground Railroad by Katherine Ayres, 1998.
Nothing but the Truth: A Documentary Novel by Avi, 1991.
Pedro's Journal: a Voyage With Christopher Columbus, August 3, 1492 -
February 14, 1493 by Pam Conrad, 1991
A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, A Slave Girl
by Patricia McKissack, 1997
The Private Notebook of Katie Roberts, Age 11 by Amy Hest, 1995
Rachel's Journal: The Story of a Pioneer Girl by Marissa Moss, 1998
Rope Burn by Jan Siebold, 2000 (class assignment writing based on proverbs)
Rose's Journal : The Story of a Girl in the Great Depression by Marissa Moss, 2001.
Running Girl: The Diary of Ebonee Rose by Sharon Bell Mathis, 1997

Sarah Anne Hartford by Kathleen Duey, 1996
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Age 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend, 1987
The Secret of Gumbo Grove by Eleanora E. Tate, 1987
So Far From Home: The Diary of Mary Driscoll, An Irish Mill Girl
by Barry Denenberg, 1997
So Much To Tell You by John Marsden, 1989
Strider by Beverly Cleary, 1991
Tchaikovsky Discovers America by Esther Kalman, 1995
Tru Confessions by Janet Tashjian, 1997
West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi
by Jim Murphy, 1998
The Wreck of the Zanzibar by Michael Morpurgo, 1995

Diaries and Journals - Picture Books

Anni's India Diary by Ann Axworthy, 1992
Birdie's Lighthouse by Deborah Hopkinson, 1997
Bluewater Journal: The Voyage of the Sea Tiger by Loretta Krupinski, 1995
Celia's Island Journal by Loretta Krupinski, 1992
Diary of a Church Mouse by Graham Oakley, 1987

My Album by Eleanor Schick, 1984
My Prairie Year: based on the Diary of Elenore Plaisted by Brett Harvey, 1986
My Stories by Hildy Calpurnia Rose by Dale Gottlieb, 1991
The Mystery of Mineral Gorge: A Cobtown Story From the Diaries of Lucky Hart
by Julia Van Nutt, 1998
Only Opal: The Diary of a Young Girl by Jane Boulton, 1994
Petey Moroni's Camp Runamok Diary by Pat Cummings, 1992
Pumpkins From the Sky: A Cobtown Story: From the Diaries of Lucky Hart
by Julia Nutt, 1999

Diaries and Journals - Young Adult Fiction (high school age)

The Amazing and Death-Defying Diary of Eugene Dingman by Paul Zindel, 1987
The Beginning of Unbelief by Robin D. Jones
Bunkhouse Journal by Diane Johnston Hamm, 1990
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman, 1994
Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey by Margaret Peterson Haddix, 1996
Ducky by Ann M. Martin, 1998
Ducky, Diary Two by Ann M. Martin, 1998
The Falcon by Jackie French Koller, 1998
A Handful of Stars by Rafik Schami, 1990
Letters to Julia by Barbara Ware Holmes, 1997
Somebody Else's Baby by Geraldine Kaye, 1992
Sydney, Herself by Colby F. Rodowsky, 1989
Tangerine by Edward Bloor, 1997
3 NBs of Julian Drew by James M. Deem
What Kind of Love? The Diary of A Pregnant Teenager by Sheila Cole, 1995
Who's Reading Darcy's Diary? by Martha Tolles, 1984

Beginning notes page of bibliography
Writers of fiction, journalism or poetry (or "would-be writers")
Writers of Diaries and Journals
Writers of Letters
Short Bibliography of books written by children

Last Updated November 19, 2003