Amelia's notebooks

The hand-lettered contents of a nine-year-old girl's notebook, in which she records her thoughts and feelings about moving, starting school, and dealing with her older sister, as well as keeping her old best friend and making a new one.

Hoping to impress the new girl in her class while they work together on an archeological dig project, Amelia tries to improve by giving herself a makeover and almost loses a friend in the process.

Ten-year-old Amelia exchanges letters and postcards with her long-distance friend Nadia. Includes actual letters folded and inserted into envelopes.

Ten-year-old Amelia records her thoughts and feelings about flying solo to Chicago to meet the father she has not seen since her parents divorced when she was an infant.

Amelia had expected to have a quiet summer, but instead she makes friends with a deaf boy who moves in next door, deals with her grouchy older sister, has an asthma attack, and goes to a family reunion. Features hand-printed text and drawings and thirty-two sign language flash cards.

Problems arise for Amelia when she starts sixth grade at the same middle school where her older sister Cleo is an eighth-grader, and she gets the school's meanest teacher for three of her classes. Amelia! "I'm finally in middle school and I thought it would be great, but having a bully for a teacher like Mr. Lambaste is horrible. I need help -- advice -- a friend -- and I need them all now!"

Amelia uses her diary to record the great events in her life during the year which she spent in the fifth grade.

The hand-lettered contents of a nine-year-old girl's notebook, in which she records her thoughts and feelings about notes and freindship.

To spread gossip, you need to know stuff and, you need to know how to tell it in an exciting way--but you have to be careful, since gossip is never nice, is the summary of the story.

Amelia's ready for the New Year with her fourteen resolutions that she's really truly no-matter-what going to keep this time.

Amelia creates a handwritten book about palm reading, fortune telling, handwriting analysis, with games and quizes included.

Amelia records her thoughts and feelings about running for school secretary.

"Despite the hard mattresses, biting bugs, and exhausting hikes, Amelia finally begins to enjoy her time at sleepaway camp with the help of her new friends, but when she gets her first serious crush on a boy named Luke, Amelia is stunned to find out that Carly likes him too and so must find a way to win his heart without losing her newest best friend."--Publisher's information.

Amelia records in her diary a nightmare come true when her embarrassing older sister tags along on a sixth-grade class trip, and then she learns about the nasty side of gossip when rumors start about her at her new school.

Amelia thought that the only thing better than a best friend was two best friends. But then they come together and she's not sure if any of them are friends. Will Amelia be able to have more than one best friend?

"Amelia is excited to graduate from middle school, but nervous about starting high school, especially when she finds out she won't have her best friend Carly with her. In her homemade graduation yearbook, drawings and 'photos' nostalgically recap her earlier years and notebooks as Amelia figures out how to face the changes ahead"--