 Amazing Days of Abby Hayes Series by Anne Mazer JFIC MAZ
"Abby is ecstatic about her family's plans for a vacation in Paris. But when they get there, it's more of the same old thing: her siblings fighting non-stop, with nobody able to agree on so much as where to eat dinner. Abby feels a connection to the city, though after all, it's the home of many famous writers. So she decides to take matters into her own hands and go off on an adventure of her own."
Scholastic
 Amelia's Notebook Series by Marissa Moss JFIC MOS
"The hand-lettered contents of a nine-year-old girl's notebook, in which she records her thoughts and feelings about moving, starting school, and dealing with her older sister, as well as keeping her old best friend and making a new one."
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 Attack of the Mutant Underwear by Tom Birdseye JFIC BIR
"Will Cody be able to hide his humiliating mistakes of the past from his peers in his new school?"
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 Captain Arsenio: Adventures and (Mis)Adventures in Flight by Pablo Bernasconi JFIC BER
"Pages from the recently discovered diary of Captain Manuel J. Arsenio, in which are recorded his many failed attempts to create a flying machine, starting in the 1780s with the Motocanary, progressing through the Aerial Submarine, the Hamstertronic, and sixty-seven other disasters."
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 Cinderella (as if you didn't already know the story) by Barbara Einsor JFIC EIN
"This hip, contemporary retelling of the classic tale is ideal for tweens. Black-and-white silhouettes are intermingled with Cinderella's letters to her recently deceased mother in this totally original package."
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 Dear Max by Sally Grindley JFIC GRI
"When nine-year-old Max writes a fan letter to his favorite author, Max has no idea what's in store for him. Told through hilariously illustrated letters and postcards, this book tells the story of an unlikely friendship. Illustrations."
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 Diary of a Would be Princess by Sally Grindley JFIC GRE
"Jillian James is not popular. She's not a Princess. She's not a Normal. Most of the Princesses and Normals think she's one of the Dorks. In her classroom journal, Jillian records her thoughts about school, family, and friends, as well as her deepest wish to be in the Princess clique. Throughout the year she learns the true meaning of friendship and the value of being herself."
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 The Diary of Melanie Martin by Carol Weston JFIC WES
"Dear Diary, You will never in a million years guess where I'm going....Italy! In Europe!! Across the ocean!!! I even have a passport. It's really cool, except I'm squinting my eyes in the photo, so I look like a dork. At least that's what my brother said. I call him Matt the Brat. You would too. Trust me.... When Melanie Martin heads to Italy on a family vacation with her art-obsessed mom, her grumpy dad, and her little brother, she has no idea what she's in for. As she discovers Michelangelo, Italian ice cream, and poetry, she also realizes how much her family means to her. Maybe she won't trade them in after all."
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 Flashcards of My Life by Charise Mercile Harper JFIC HAR
"When Emily receives a pack of note cards labeled "Flashcards of My Life" as an unexpected birthday present, she uses them as inspiration to journal and to untangle her knotted life. Includes illustrations by the author."
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 For Your Eyes Only! by Joanne Rocklin JFIC ROC
"The entries in the journals of two sixth grade students reveal much about their personal feelings, family lives, and a growing interest in poetry sparked by their new substitute teacher."
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Gorilla City by Charlie Small JFIC SMA
"No one knows the full story of Charlie Small. At least, not yet. His battered journal was found washed up on a remote, windswept shore. And at first we thought it an elaborate hoax. Surely no 8-year-old could have had so many wild adventures, witnessed so many extraordinary things, lived such an incredible life and still only be eight. And yet . . . there was something so vivid in the telling that we were persuaded to send the journal and some of its boggling content for analysis. And only one conclusion could be drawn. Everything in the journal of Charlie Small is true! In his first adventure, Gorilla City, Charlie wrestles a deadly river croc, rides a steam-powered rhino, and becomes tribal chief in a city of gorillas."
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 Heads or Tails: Stories from Sixth Grade by Jack Gantos JFIC GAN
"Jack's diary helps him deal with his problems which include dog-eating alligators, a terror for an older sister, a younger brother who keeps breaking parts of himself, and next-door neighbors who are really weird."
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 Julep O'Toole: Miss Independent by Trudi Strain Trueit JFIC TRU
"Eleven-year-old Julep O'Toole wants to convince her mom that she is old enough to wear makeup, have a cell phone, and choose her own clothes, but it takes a creative idea from the preteen to put mother and daughter on the same wave length."
Dutton Children's Books
 The Legend of Zoey by Candie Moonshower JFIC MOO
"Zoey's family has a strange feeling about the two-tailed comet in the sky. But when Zoey's class takes a field trip to Reelfoot Lake, she's propelled back in time to 1811, when the lake was formed by massive earthquakes."
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 Lily B. on the Brink of Cool by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel JFIC KIM
"The eventually internationally recognized writer Lily Blennerhassett" spends her thirteenth summer missing her best friend and keeping a journal of her boring life at home and exciting newly-discovered relatives."
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 Lucy Rose: Here's the Thing About Me by Katy Kelly JFIC KEL
"In her fourth book, eight-year-old Lucy Rose, a not-so-average girl with a not-so-boring life in Washington, D.C., helps a friend turn a plumbing store into a bakery--among the many, many other things that are keeping her a busy bee."
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 Max's Logbook by Marissa Moss JFIC MOS
"Max's log book of observations, drawings, experiments, and inventions reveals the rich world of his imagination and his feelings about his parents' divorce."
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 Middle School Is Worse Than Meatloaf by Jennifer Holm JFIC HOL
"Told entirely through notes, grocery receipts, report cards, bottle caps, newspaper clippings, and other pieces of a young girls life, Newbery Honor winner Holm delivers the story of Ginnys seventh-grade year using all the things that "really" matter. Full color."
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 The Naked Mole Rat Letters by Mary Amato JFIC AMA
"When her father begins a long-distance romance with a Washington, D.C. zookeeper, twelve-year-old Frankie sends fabricated email letters to the zookeeper in an attempt to end the relationship."
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 Please Write in this Book by Mary Amato JFIC AMA
"When a teacher leaves a blank book in the Writer's Corner for her students tofind, an epic battle ensues as they follow her instructions to 'write in thisbook.'"
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 The Private Notebook of Katie Roberts, Age 11 by Amy Hest JFIC HES
"In a series of journal entries and letters to a pen pal, Katie relates her feelings about her father's death in World War II, her mother's remarriage, and the family's move from New York City to Texas."
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 Trial by (Jury) Journal by Kate Klise JFIC KLI
"Lily Watson is serving on the jury for the trial of a man accused of killing Lily's classmate, Perry Keet. There's something fishy about the case. Nobody has ever found Perry's body. Is he sending messages from beyond the grave? This funny mystery by the author of "Regarding the Fountain" is told through diaries, court documents, newspaper articles--and the paintings of a talented gorilla."
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Regarding the Fountain: a Tale, in Letters, of Liars and Leaks