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.

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.

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.

Follows Amelia through an entire year as she records and illustrates her adventures in her notebook. Scrapbook pages introduce the seasons.

Now in sixth grade, Amelia records in her diary all of the problems that arise when a new girl at school seems to be passing nasty notes to Amelia and trying to steal her best friend.

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.

Despite the discomforts of biting bugs, hard mattresses, and exhausting hikes, Amelia enjoys sleepaway camp with her best friend Carly until they both develop crushes on the same boy.

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.

Amerlia 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?