Dearjournal Stories

This is Ellie's journal about her life with her step dad who treats her like crap.

Twelve years after leaving Bluffington, Doug Funny returns home with a box of old journals and a heart full of unfinished memories. In this nostalgic, grown-up retelling, Doug faces love, loss, anxiety, and all the awkward beauty of adulthood. Sometimes the past writes back...

My name's Maya, Maya Monroe. It's not easy failing 7th grade English. But, fact is, I did fail, and now I'm stuck with a journal. I have to write about mostly every day during my summer vactation, but maybe some good will come out of it. Maybe I'll end up doing things I would never expect myself to do. Maybe I'll find out new things about myself. Maybe I'll be a person I never thought was ever in me. Maybe my heart will change for good, once my story's written.✎

Belle Navarro has just moved from Texas to Malibu, and she's at Ridgeway High School. She comes across Franny Winslow, who just can't help but take a peek at what looks like Belle's journal. When Franny reads Belle's journal, she jumps to the conclusion that Belle is really an old lady with the body of a teenager! Franny decides to expose Belle at the Veterans Day party, but is Belle really who Franny thinks she is?