Voyage On The Great Titanic
In her diary in 1912, thirteen-year-old Margaret Ann describes how she leaves her lonely life in a London orphanage to become a companion to a wealthy American woman, sails on the RMS "Titanic," and experiences its sinking.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 134
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1010
subjects: shipwrecks, ocean liners, orphans, diaries [X], london (england) [X], titanic (steamship), historical fiction
Archie's War My Scrapbook Of The First World War, 1914-1918
When Archie is given a scrapbook for his tenth birthday in 1914, he chronicles the next four years of his life using documents, artifacts, and comic strips.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: diaries [X], grief, world war, 1914-1918, toy and movable books, london (england) [X], great britain
The Carbon Diaries 2017
In 2017, two years after England introduces carbon dioxide rationing to combat climatic change, eighteen-year-old Laura chronicles her first year at a London university as natural disasters and political upheaval disrupt her studies.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690
subjects: protest movements, energy conservation, rationing, climatic changes, diaries [X], london (england) [X], england, climate
Charlotte In London
Charlotte keeps a journal as she and her family prepare to leave France and travel to London, where they meet famous writers and artists; and includes profiles of painters along with reproductions of their works.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 870
Planet Janet In Orbit #2
Janet records her trials and tribulations in her diary, including how she finds a summer job, the changes in her mother and best friend as they fall in love, and how she approaches her own seventeenth birthday.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: interpersonal relations, family life, high schools, schools, diaries [X], london (england) [X], england
Falling In Love With English Boys
Stranded in London for the summer by a relationship gone bad, Catherine blogs her misery while reading the diary of a nineteenth-century girl whose life strangely parallels her own.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
The Sherlockian
Literary researcher Harold White, having been inducted in the Baker Street Irregulars, a group of Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts, embarks on a search for a missing diary of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and investigates the murder of the world's leading Doylean scholar.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: doyle, arthur conan, stoker, bram, literary historians, scholars, diaries [X], serial murderers, london (england) [X]
Isabelle's Perfect Performance
In their second term at the Royal Ballet School, Ellie and her friends prepare for an important appraisal of their dancing while also trying to get along with Isabelle, an unfriendly new girl.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: diaries [X], school stories, private schools, interpersonal relations, ballet, england, london (england) [X]
Fire Cat
Presents a children's book for young readers that describes facts about the Great Fire of London through a diary written by Samuel Pepys.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: pepys, samuel, historical fiction, diaries [X], cats, great fire, london, england, 1666, great britain, london (england) [X]
Bombs Over London
Instructed by her time-traveling mother to travel to World War I London and steal a German spy's briefcase, thirteen-year-old Mira enjoys meeting famous suffragists and such writers as Arthur Conan Doyle, but soon begins to struggle with whether the changes she has been working for are the right thing to do, or if history should be allowed to unfold without interference.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: time travel, spy stories, conduct of life, diaries [X], london (england) [X], great britain