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An anthology of diaries written by children in Nazi-occupied Europe. Covering the entire war and the breadth of Europe, the diaries record their day-to-day life. Descriptions are given of ghettos and concentration camps, of bombings and Blitzkriegs,…

When Zlata’s Diary was first published at the height of the Bosnian conflict, it became an international bestseller and was compared to The Diary of Anne Frank, both for the freshness of its voice and the grimness of the world it describes. It begins…

Dorothy Elmhirst Straight is an American author who wrote How the World Began in 1962 at the age of 4 for her grandmother, Dorothy Payne Whitney, making her among the youngest published authors in history.

Knowing that two friends are lying and keeping secrets about the night another friend killed herself, seventeen-year-old Ella searches for the truth.

Catherine Hunter is the daughter of a senior government official on the island of Anglya. She's one of the privileged - she has luxurious clothes, plenty to eat, and is protected from the Collections which have ravaged families throughout the land.…

Tyler honors the people who helped him cope with bullying and who inspired him to turn his pain into paint on the canvas.

From Penguin Random House:

"An expansive, moving poetry anthology, representing 20 years of poetry from students and alumni of Chicago’s Oak Park River Forest High School Spoken Word Club."

Дневники Анны Франк и Нины Луговской могут рассматриваться как родственные документы. Прежде всего, они принадлежат тому новому разделу общей истории, который выделился в самостоятельную дисциплину, называемую микро-историей. Тоска о любви, жажда ее,…

The "Anne Frank of Russia" was 13 when she started a diary of her life in Moscow during Stalin's Great Purge. In 1937 Stalin's secret police ransacked her house and discovered the diary. She, her mother, and two sisters were charged with treason and…

In the summer of 1816, a young, well-educated woman from England traveled with her lover to the Swiss Alps. Unseasonable rain kept them trapped inside their lodgings, where they entertained themselves by reading ghost stories. At the urging of…