If you want… you should try: DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL Anne Frank The true story and diary of a preco- cious young girl whose family is forced into hiding by the approaching Nazi regime. The diary follows her life sur- viving Nazi occupaon and is an incredibly powerful read. AR: 6.5 352 pages ADRIAN MOLE (series) Sue Townsend Starng with ‘The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4’ Adrian is now 13 3/4 years old and coping with first love, his parents spling up and the messy business of growing up. AR: 5.1 272 pages DORK DIARIES (series) Rachel Renee Russell Nikki Maxwell has never been pop- ular but now she’s started at a new school, she’s hoping to leave her old dorky ways be- hind! AR: 5.4 304 pages DIARY OF A WIMPY KID (series) Jeff Kinney Greg begins to keep a jour- nal, even though it’s his mum’s idea. He’s surround- ed at school by morons but knows he’ll be famous one day. AR: 5.2 224 pages 12 YEARS A SLAVE Solomon Northup Not a diary but the incredible ac- count of a black man living in the free north of the USA, being abducted and sold into slavery and his strug- gles in the South- ern states. Non-AR 166 pages BRIDGET JONES’S DIARY Helen Fielding As Bridget doc- uments her struggles through the social minefield of her thires and tries to weigh up the eternal queson of which man she may love, she turns for support to four indispensa- ble friends. Non-AR 320 pages A DIARY