The Diary of Latoya Hunter: My First Year in Junior High
by Latoya Hunter (Crown,1992)
Latoya writes about her experiences living in the Bronx.
Child of the Dark
by Carolina Maria de Jesus (New American Library,1963)
The author writes about her life as one of the desperately poor in a Brazilian slum.
Keeping Secrets: the Girlhood Diaries of Seven Women Writers
by Mary Lyons (H. Holt,1995)
Portions of the diaries of Louisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Charlotte
Forten, Sarah Jane Foster, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Ida B. Wells appear here.
Children in the Holocaust and World War II: Their Secret Diaries
(Pocket Books,1995)
Twenty-three young people wrote about what they saw while in hiding or imprisoned in
ghettoes or extermination camps.
The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto
by Dawid Sierakowiak(Oxford University Press,1996)
Dawid's diary entries, from age fourteen to eighteen, document the disintegration of his
family in the notorious Polish ghetto.
Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank (Doubleday,1967)
Given a diary for her 13th birthday, Anne faithfully wrote in it while hiding in
Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.
War Journal of an Innocent Soldier
by John Bassett (Archon,1989)
An American infantryman posted in Italy during the final days of World War II recorded the
final push against the Germans.
Zlata's Diary by Zlata Filipovic (Viking,1994)
Zlata, a Bosnian teen, expressed her thoughts and fears during the year-long siege of
Sarajevo.
The Secret Eye
by Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas (University of North Carolina,1990)
Begun in 1848, when she was 14, this diary reports a southern belle's life before, during
and after the Civil War.
Educating Esmeby Esme Codell
A teacher writes about the first year she spends in her profession, including the difficulties of working with troubled youth, a limited budget, and being young.
No Words to Say Goodbye: A Young Jewish Woman's Journey from the Soviet Union into America
by Raimonda Kopelnitsky
We Are Witnesses
by Jack Baos –
A compilation of diaries of 5 teens killed in holocaust.
Freedom Writers Diary: How a Group of Extraordinary Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them
Erin Gruwell
Journey is the Destination: The journals of Dan Eldon
By Dan Eldon
Dan Eldon was a photojournalist murdered at 23 while covering events in Somalia. Journals kept from about the age of 12. Most of the journals include his photos and artwork as well.