Exploring Top Books of Shelfari

The Confessions of Georgia Nicolson: Book 1

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

by Louise Rennison

Angus: I should have guessed all was not entirely well in the cat department when I picked him up and he began savaging my cardigan. Thongs: What is the point of them? They just go up your bum, as far as I can tell. Full-Frontal Snogging: Kissing with all the trimmings, lip to lip, open mouth, tongues ... everything. (Apart from dribble, which is never acceptable.)

Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey

by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Things are so bad, I feel like I'm going to explode if I don't do something... Everyone has to keep a journal in Mrs. Dunphrey's English class, but the teacher has promised she won't read any entry marked "Do not read this." It's the kind of assignment Tish Bonner, one of the girls with big hair who sit in the back row, usually wouldn't take very seriously. But right now, Tish desperately needs someone to talk... (more)

Go Ask Alice

by Beatrice Sparks

January 24th After you've had it, there isn't even life without drugs.... It started when she was served a soft drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to the mean streets of an unforgiving city. It was a journey that would rob her of her innocence, her youth -- and ultimately her life. ... (more)

Click Here (to find out how i survived seventh grade)

Click Here (to find out how i survived seventh grade)

by Denise Vega

magine if all your personal thoughts about crushes, fears, enemies, and even kissing practice ended up on the internet for everyone to read! That's what happens to Erin Swift when her secret blog lands on the school Web site. As if navigating the treacherous waters of seventh grade weren't enough! Writing with warm, knowing humor, first-time novelist Denise Vega perfectly captures life from a seventh grade girl's... (more)

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4

by Sue Townsend

Adrian Mole's first love, Pandora, has left him; a neighbor, Mr. Lucas, appears to be seducing his mother (and what does that mean for his father?); the BBC refuses to publish his poetry; and his dog swallowed the tree off the Christmas cake. "Why" indeed.

Cathy's Book: If Found Call 650-266-8233

Cathy's Book: If Found Call 650-266-8233

by Sean Stewart, Jordan Weisman

This stunning debut combines reading with the world of internet gaming to create a masterful new genre that will allow teens to take the story from the page into the world of cyberspace and beyond. Things weren’t so peachy in Cathy’s life before Victor broke up with her. Her father died unexpectedly, she’s failing school, and her best friend is mad at her. But when Cathy decides to investigate Victor’s reasons... (more)

It Happened to Nancy

by Anonymous teenager

The editor of the classic GO ASK ALICE has compiled the poignant journals of a 14-year-old date-rape victim who contracted AIDS and died.

A Factory of Cunning

by Philippa Stockley

Set in late eighteenth-century England, Philippa Stockley’s American debut gives us a wickedly delightful but deadly serious battle of the wills and the sexes. It begins with the arrival in London of the mysterious Mrs. Fox—on the run from a scandalous French past—who takes a new identity, determined to reinvent herself. She must pit her formidable skills for revenge against Earl Much, a British aristocrat with no... (more)

Treacherous Love: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager

Treacherous Love: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager

by Beatrice Sparks

Fourteen-year-old Jennie's life is turning upside down. Her father has walked out, and her anguished mother seeks solace in pills. Her best friend practically abandons her to be with a boyfriend. It seems like Jennie's real best friend is her diary. Then she meets Mr. Johnstone, the substitute math teacher. Jennie has never met such a charismatic teacher. She feels honored when Mr. J. seems to single her out for... (more)

Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers" (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson)

Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers" (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson)

by Louise Rennison

Brilliantly funny, teenage angst author Louise Rennison's sixth book about the confessions of crazy but lovable Georgia Nicolson. Follow up to the hilarious number one bestselling hardback "...and that's when it fell off in my hand." Laugh your socks off at Georgia's tales from her trip to Hamburger-a-gogo land, and her attempts to entice Masimo, the Italian stallion. Can Georgia become the composed sex-kitten... (more)

The Confessions of Georgia Nicolson: Book 8

Love Is a Many Trousered Thing

by Louise Rennison

After queuing up at the cakeshop of luuurve for ages, I have accidentally bought two cakes. And I am sitting in a bush. Georgia thought her heartbreak-osity troubles were over when Masimo announced that he wanted to be her one and only. But just as she hits Swoon City, Robbie, the original Sex God, shows up. How in the world has Georgia accidentally acquired two Sex Gods? Before Georgia can decide what... (more)

The Confessions of Georgia Nicolson: Book 10

Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?

Fab Confessions of Georgia Nicolson

by Louise Rennison

Ohmygiddygodspyjamas! The tenth marvy book in the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson is here! Get ready to laugh like a loon on loon tablets. It's the FINAL instalment of Georgia's fab and hilarious diary! Does Georgia escape the cakeshop of luuurve? Can there be more heartbreaknosity in store? Will the Sex God pop up again unexpectedly (oo-er)! And what about the supreme accidental snogmaster Dave the Laugh? Will... (more)

The Confessions of Georgia Nicolson: Book 4

Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants

Even Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson

by Louise Rennison

Georgia thought she had put her "red-bottomosity" to rest when she finally chose Robbie the Sex God over Dave the Laugh. Anyway, Dave the Laugh is now dating her friend Ellen (which didn't stop Georgia from snogging him at a party...) But when Dave breaks up with Ellen and the Sex God is never around, Georgia doesn't know what to do! As always, in Georgia's life, nothing ever turns out as planned!

The Egyptologist: A Novel

by Arthur Phillips

From the bestselling author of Prague comes a witty, inventive, brilliantly constructed novel about an Egyptologist obsessed with finding the tomb of an apocryphal king. This darkly comic labyrinth of a story opens on the desert plains of Egypt in 1922, then winds its way from the slums of Australia to the ballrooms of Boston by way of Oxford, the battlefields of the First World War, and a royal court in... (more)

It's OK, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers

The Confessions of Georgia Nicolson: Book 2

It's OK, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers

Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson

by Louise Rennison

Georgia's protestations on being forced to emigrate to New Zealand with her parents are so successful that soon she's on her way back to Britain to stay with her grandparents. Her life becomes even more mad than when she stayed with her parents.

Angus, Thongs and Full-frontal Snogging (Confessions of Georgia Nicolsn)

Angus, Thongs and Full-frontal Snogging (Confessions of Georgia Nicolsn)

by Louise Rennison

Written in diary mode, the self-obsessed observations of teenager Georgia Nicolson are very funny and not a little outrageous. The 'Angus' of the title is her mad wild ginger cat who terrorises the neighbour's poodle; the 'thongs' are what the girlfriend of the sex-god she is in love with wears; and 'full-frontal snogging' is what she dreams of experiencing. In addition, she has to put up with little sister Libby,... (more)

The Confessions of Georgia Nicolson: Book 9

Stop in the Name of Pants!

by Louise Rennison

Time to gird the loins and pucker up. Blimey O'Reilly's trousers! Three maybe-boyfriends is a lot for any girl to handle—red-bottomed or not. What with Robbie the Sex God back from Kiwi-a-gogo land wanting to "get coffee" and whatsit, Masimo the Luuurve God saying things like " Ciao , Georgia, see you later" (the good see-you-later or the bad see-you-later??), and her mate Dave the Laugh snogging her in a... (more)

Kim: Empty Inside: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager

Kim: Empty Inside: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager

by Beatrice Sparks

I am so scared. I feel like I'm silently screaming for help and no one pays any attention of tries to hear me. I can't control anything anymore. It's all out to get me! When Kim can't handle things, she eats. Then she purges. Sometimes she fasts. She knows she isn't as thin as the other girls on her gymnastics team, and she's worried that now, away from home for the first time as a college freshman, she won't... (more)

The Diary of Pelly D

by L. J. Adlington

This is the diary of Pelly D. It,s totally secret, so if you are reading it I hate you already. The notebook is wrapped in faded brown paper, sealed in a battered water can. Toni V, who works on the City Five demolition crew, unearths it as he's drilling through concrete. He shouldn't smuggle it back to his room, and he definitely shouldn't read it. But he does. At first, Toni V thinks Pelly D is rich, stupid,... (more)

Planet Janet

by Dyan Sheldon

"The fast-paced, clever writing . . . will keep teens eagerly reading and sharing passages with each other to the end." — BOOKLIST With a Mad Cow for a mother, an eccentric psychotherapist for a father, and a dweeble for an older brother, it's no wonder sixteen-year-old Janet Bandry is ready to enter the Dark Phase of her life. As this determined British teenager sees it, the DP requires dressing in black,... (more)

Shelfari Book Activity

Tags: diary form

by Louise Rennison

by Margaret Peterson Haddix

by Beatrice Sparks

by Denise Vega

by Sue Townsend

by Sean Stewart, Jordan Weisman

by Anonymous teenager

by Philippa Stockley

by Beatrice Sparks

by Louise Rennison

by Louise Rennison

Fab Confessions of Georgia Nicolson

by Louise Rennison

Even Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson

by Louise Rennison

by Arthur Phillips

Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson

by Louise Rennison

by Louise Rennison

by Louise Rennison

by Beatrice Sparks

by L. J. Adlington

by Dyan Sheldon