Book excerpt: Diary Of A Shy Girl is a memoir of an adolescent girl. From a strict Pentecostal home, she feels alone and doesn’t open up easily to others about her home life, which she describes as unfair. She enjoys visiting her home country but she feels out of place. Her life is changed forever as she searches for the meaning of God in her life after her father passes away. When she finally falls in love, she doesn’t know how to make her feelings known to the one man she considers to be her first true love. Diary Of A Shy Girl is sure to amuse and perplex as it reveals the heart of an adolescent child growing up through the pressures and difficulties of puberty.