Non-Fiction Journals for Young Adults
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compiled by Erin Pierce (piercee@alphaclp.clpgh.org), November 1999
from contributions to YALSA-BK


1. "Diary of Latoya Hunter:  My First Year in Junior High" by Latoya
Hunter
2. "Educating Esme" by Esme Codell
3. "No Words to Say Goodbye:  A Young Jewish Woman's Journey from the
Soviet Union into America" by Raimonda Kopelnitsky
4. "New Kids In Town:  Oral Histories of Immigrant Teens" by Janet Bode
5. "Keeping Secrets" by Mary Lyons - compilation of 7 female childhood
journals
6. "We Are Witnesses" by Jack Baos - compilation of diaries of 5 teens
killed in holocaust
7. "Basketball Diaries" by Jim Carroll (poet and teenaged heroine addict
records his life)
8. "Child in the Dark" by Carolina Maria de Jesus (desperately poor in a
Brazilian slum)
9. "Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak:  Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto" by
Dawid Sierakowiak
10. "Anne Frank:  Diary of a Young Girl"
11. "War Journal of an Innocent Soldier" by John Bassett
12. "Freedom Writers Diary:  How a Group of Extraordinary Teens Used
Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around tThem" Erin Gruwell
13. "Real Teens:  Diary of  a Junior Year"
14. "Journey is the Destination:  The journals of 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.

Then the list of  non-fiction pioneer journals

A Covered Wagon Girl: The Diary of Sallie Hester, 1849-1859 Sallie Hester

A Lady's life in the Rocky Mountains    Isabella Bird

Covered Wagon Women:Diaries and Letters From Western Trails Kenneth Holmes

Doc Susie   Virginia Cornell

Emily: the Diary of a Hard-Worked Woman Emily French

Frontier Soldier: An Enlisted man's Journal of the Sioux and Nes Perce
William Frederick Zimmer

Ho For California   Sandra L. Myres

Letters of a Women Homesteader  Elinore Pruitt Stewart

Letters on an Elk Hunt  Elinore Pruitt Stewart

Mollie: The Journal of Mollie Dorsey Sanford in NK and CO   Mollie Dorsey
Sanford

Quilt of Words: Women's Diaries,etc.    Sharon Niederman

The Canadian Settler's Guide    Catherine Parr Traill

The Checkered Years: A Bonanza Farm Diary, 1884-1888    Mary Dodge
Woodward

The Life of an Ordinary Woman   Anne Ellis

These is my Words    Nancy Turner

Village Life in America 1852 - 1872 Caroline Cowles Richards

Way West: Journal of Pioneer Women  Lillian Schlissel

With Pen and Pencil on the Frontier in 1851 Frank B. Mayer

Women of the West   Cathy Luchetti

Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey     Lillian Schlissel

Women's Voices on the Oregon Trail  Susan G. Butruille