"In the midst of the Irish famine, Johanna flees one disaster - only to land in another. After a massive potato famine strikes Ireland, thirteen-year-old Johanna Leary flees to Canada with her family. But typhus and other illnesses...
Diary fiction
- Author:McClintock, NorahSummary:
- Author:Townsend, SueSummary:
Closing in on 40, the sometimes misstepping Adrian Mole faces a host of unpleasantries--just one of which is his escalating number of nocturnal visits to the loo. Meanwhile, on the marriage front, it might be fair to say that his once-...
- Author:Ross, SinclairSummary:
“Its an immense night out there, wheeling and windy. The lights on the street and in the houses against the black wetness, little unilluminating glints that might be painted on it. The town seems huddled together, cowering on a high...
- Author:Déziel-Hupé, AndréaneSummary:
Dans la suite de ce récit riche en rebondissements et toujours présenté sous forme de journal personnel, vous découvrirez le choix de Sophie. La voie empruntée est-elle celle d'une relation libre d'attachement ou berce-t-elle encore l'...
- Author:Rennison, LouiseSummary:
The saga of teenager Georgia Nicolson continues in diary entries about her life after her boyfriend goes off to Kiwi-agogoland, leaving her to make do without him.
- Author:Couto, MiaSummary:
Told through two haunting, interwoven diaries, this novel reveals the mysterious world of Kulumani, a village in Mozambique whose traditions and beliefs are threatened when ghost-like lionesses begin hunting the women who live there....
- Author:Kinney, JeffSummary:
In Big Shot, book 16 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney, Greg Heffley and sports just don't mix. After a disastrous field day competition at school, Greg decides that when it...
- Author:Kinney, JeffSummary:
Middle-schooler Greg Heffley is the prime suspect when it is discovered that school property has been damaged, but when a surprise blizzard hits and school is closed, Greg is stuck indoors with his family, unable to prove his innocence...
- Author:King, JamesSummary:
To all who knew him, Etienne Morneau lived unremarkably. Raised in an orphanage, his parents unknown, people considered him reserved, unfeeling, and antisocial. His death would have gone unnoticed were it not for his art and writing...
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Based on the diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user chronicling her struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.
- Author:Little, JeanSummary:
Twelve-year-old Fiona Macgregor receives a diary for her birthday and uses it to record the arrival of the Spanish Flu epidemic in Toronto in 1918 and the impact it has on her family. Includes factual historical information about the...
- Author:El Farrah El Kenz, SuzanneSummary:
Suzanne El Farrah El Kenz relate dans ce récit émouvant, mené dans une langue alerte et sobre, l’histoire de son exil et, notamment, le retour avec son fils vers une certaine maison du Néguev située aux proches limites de Ghazza. C’est...
- Author:Mpozagara, VivianeSummary:
« Le journal d’une blanche » est un roman moderne et franchement atypique qui se construit sur une série de mise en abyme mettant en scène le récit d’une femme actuelle et bourgeoise. Dans un décor planté à Paris, le récit débute à...
- Author:Haworth-Attard, BarbaraSummary:
On the Home Front, during World War II, 13 year old Roberta keeps a diary and exchanges letters with her brother Alex, who is fighting on the Western Front. Based on actual wartime letters, this is a story about growing up in difficult...
- Author:Davies Cordova, Sarah, Magona, SindiweSummary:
Traduit pour la première fois en français, Mère à Mère, est l'un des plus grands livres sud-africains. Traduit de l'anglais par Sarah Davies Cordova Résumé Grand roman de l'apartheid où violence et beauté demeurent l'héritage...
- Author:Rennison, LouiseSummary:
Fourteen-year-old Georgia continues her diary in which she records her misadventures trying to reclaim the attention of seventeen-year-old Robbie, while coping with her friends, family, and dog-like cat Angus at the same time.
- Author:Achebe, NgoziSummary:
- Author:Little, JeanSummary:
Victoria Cope's family takes in a "Home Child", an orphaned or abandoned child from England brought to Canada to work as farm labourers or domestic servants at the turn of the century. Mary Anna is a sad, quiet child, who Victoria...
- Author:Cabot, Meg.Summary:
Princesses just want to have fun. This spring, Mia's determined to have a good time, despite the fact that the student government over which she presides is suddenly broke. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on how you look...
- Author:Fisher, CarrieSummary:
A novel which centers on a "movie brat" (much like the author herself) and her problems with drugs, the Hollywood scene, and men.