Lauren Barnett

Enter Maggie—adorably, exhaustingly, and sarcastically twelve—a modern-day Margaret (a là Judy Blume) whose private diary is her daily outlet for (over)analysing her "miserable" and "confusing" life. In entries that vary as wildly as her mood swings, Maggie beautifully articulates (and screams from the rooftops) the bitter day-to-day battles of (pre-)adolescence and all the things her parents, teachers, and peers shockingly...