Journal-Format Fiction
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compiled by McLean (kmclea@suffolk.lib.ny.us), November 1999
from contributions to PUBYAC

I had a few kids who were interested in this format also, so I made a
bibliography ~ here are a few geared toward 4-6th graders:

Fat Chance by Leslea Newman

Dear Dad, Love Laurie by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Henry Reed books by Keith Robertson

The Wreck of Zanzibar by Michael Morpurgo

For Your Eyes Only! by Joanne Rocklin

Love From Your Friend, Hannah by Minky Warshaw Skolsky

Mostly Michael by Robert Kimmel Smith

Dear Austin: Letters from the Underground Railroad by Elvira Woodruff

Birdies Lighthouse by Deborah Hopkinson

Coast to Coast with Alice by Patricia Rusch Hyatt

Letters from Camp by Kate Klise

Running Girl: the diary of Ebonee Rose

"My Name Is" series (similar to Dear America)

Dear Elijah by Miriam Bat-Ami

Your Best Friend, Katie by Pat Brisson

Diary of a Monster's Son by Ellen Conford

Moon Over Tennesse by Craig Crist-Evans

Catherine Called Birdy by Karen Cushman

Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse
The Music of the Dolphins by "
Out of the Dust by "

A Book of Your Own: keeping a diary or a journal by Carla Stevens