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California Diaries #1-5
Diary One: Dawn, Sunny, Maggie, Amalia, and Ducky
In this five-book collection by the author of the Baby-Sitters Club, a group of teenage friends deals with the ups and down of growing up
Dawn just moved back to California from Connecticut. Sunny’s mom has lung cancer. Maggie will do anything to be perfect. Amalia’s boyfriend has got a scary idea of love. And Ducky is the loneliest boy on the West Coast.
A spin-off of the bestselling Baby-Sitters Club series, the California Diaries are first-person accounts of five teenagers managing new friendships, new relationships, and a host of new problems. Diary One contains the first journal of each of the main characters, books one through five in the series.
This ebook features an illustrated personal history of Ann M. Martin, including rare images from the author’s collection.
Dawn just moved back to California from Connecticut. Sunny’s mom has lung cancer. Maggie will do anything to be perfect. Amalia’s boyfriend has got a scary idea of love. And Ducky is the loneliest boy on the West Coast.
A spin-off of the bestselling Baby-Sitters Club series, the California Diaries are first-person accounts of five teenagers managing new friendships, new relationships, and a host of new problems. Diary One contains the first journal of each of the main characters, books one through five in the series.
This ebook features an illustrated personal history of Ann M. Martin, including rare images from the author’s collection.
800 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 25, 2014
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About the author
Ann M. Martin
1,120 books3,068 followersAnn Matthews Martin was born on August 12, 1955. She grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, with her parents and her younger sister, Jane. After graduating from Smith College, Ann became a teacher and then an editor of children's books. She's now a full-time writer.
Ann gets the ideas for her books from many different places. Some are based on personal experiences, while others are based on childhood memories and feelings. Many are written about contemporary problems or events. All of Ann's characters, even the members of the Baby-sitters Club, are made up. But many of her characters are based on real people. Sometimes Ann names her characters after people she knows, and other times she simply chooses names that she likes.
Ann has always enjoyed writing. Even before she was old enough to write, she would dictate stories to her mother to write down for her. Some of her favorite authors at that time were Lewis Carroll, P. L. Travers, Hugh Lofting, Astrid Lindgren, and Roald Dahl. They inspired her to become a writer herself.
Since ending the BSC series in 2000, Ann’s writing has concentrated on single novels, many of which are set in the 1960s.
After living in New York City for many years, Ann moved to the Hudson Valley in upstate New York where she now lives with her dog, Sadie, and her cats, Gussie, Willy and Woody. Her hobbies are reading, sewing, and needlework. Her favorite thing to do is to make clothes for children.
http://us.macmillan.com/author/annmma...
Ann gets the ideas for her books from many different places. Some are based on personal experiences, while others are based on childhood memories and feelings. Many are written about contemporary problems or events. All of Ann's characters, even the members of the Baby-sitters Club, are made up. But many of her characters are based on real people. Sometimes Ann names her characters after people she knows, and other times she simply chooses names that she likes.
Ann has always enjoyed writing. Even before she was old enough to write, she would dictate stories to her mother to write down for her. Some of her favorite authors at that time were Lewis Carroll, P. L. Travers, Hugh Lofting, Astrid Lindgren, and Roald Dahl. They inspired her to become a writer herself.
Since ending the BSC series in 2000, Ann’s writing has concentrated on single novels, many of which are set in the 1960s.
After living in New York City for many years, Ann moved to the Hudson Valley in upstate New York where she now lives with her dog, Sadie, and her cats, Gussie, Willy and Woody. Her hobbies are reading, sewing, and needlework. Her favorite thing to do is to make clothes for children.
http://us.macmillan.com/author/annmma...
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March 22, 2016
I finished this on the plane last night and even though this starts out feeling like the Baby-Sitters Club series (maybe because it starts with Dawn, who does do a little rehashing), I think these have aged pretty well actually. Ducky's diary has probably aged the best - the writing style felt WAY different, and better. The series is darker than BSC: dying mothers with cancer, eating disorders, domestic violence, depression, as well as some lighter issues and maybe I'm just a serious Ann M. Martin fan but I think these are due for a comeback.
February 17, 2018
These books were my jam when I was younger. Revisiting them as an adult is strange. The romance is super gross, since the characters are just babies and tend to date older guys. Amalia's diary is probably my favourite, because of her drawings. The series loses a great deal of charm without the fonts that look like character's handwriting, but oh well. I'm just glad these books are available to revisit, even if the new covers are hideous.
March 25, 2015
I read these books in high school and loved them! I was very excited to see a compilation of them in ebook form. When i was in high school i didn't read them in order so it was nice to reread in the right order. These books are still good! Relatable characters and situations. Love the journal format!
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