This book reminds me of myself. A 15 year old girl writes in a diary about the things she goes through in her life. She deals with popularity, boys, friends, and her family. She thinks of herself as a shallow girl. Which she's not. Jenny Lambert is the most popular girl in her school. She finally talked to her in the Honor Society club. Her friends are some what good to her. Except they cut to deal with there problems. She starts to do the same thing as her friends. She ends up getting addicted to cutting. There's one boy in her school that she really likes. But his really popular so she thinks he wouldn't like her. But they become friends, and he starts to have feelings for her. She has a really hard time with her family. Her mom starts to worry about her and snoops through her room. She finds the razors and things. She wonders if she cuts and confronts her about it. I would recommend this book to teenagers because they might be able to relate to it. I really liked this book; it reminded me about my life and the things that have happened in my life.

Diary of a Teenage Girl: Becoming Me is the first book in a series of five that documents Caitlin O'Conner's life in the form of her diary. In the first book, we see Caitlin's range of emotions and personal growth as she deals with a lot of personal decisions. She sees her parent's marriage nearly fail which made her question her faith. Then, she has her ten minutes of popularity, which lead her to questionable situations such as drinking and parties. Caitlin begins dating which was a very difficult situation for her morally, and she eventually made a personal conviction not to date until she is older. However, the main point of the story that encompasses all of these topics is her new commitment to God as a Christian and her relationship with Him.
The author was able to address these issues with an assortment of situations in the main character's life. However, I felt that she over-dramatized certain events in order to make her point clear. This was not necessary for the audience to grasp the concept she was trying to convey.
This novel is written in the form of a first person diary directed at Christian teenage girls, or teens interested in learning about the Christian faith and what it entails. The author, Melody Carlson, did a fabulous job portraying the word choice, struggles and heartache of a teenage girl, which hooks the audience from the very start; they will be able to relate to the issues the main characters deal with. Readers that enjoyed the format of the Dear America series and the content of a modern Christian-fiction story are sure to love this novel.

Becoming Me is a diary written by an average teenage girl, Caitlin O'Conner. She writes about all of the trials and problems she runs into in high school. She starts hanging out with the popular crowd, only leading her into trouble. She starts getting into situations with her family, friends, and boyfriend that she doesn't know how to handle. She desperately searches for God for the answers. She later finds that God will help anyone who lets Him.
This book is an excellent portrait of a teenage girl's life. It includes many difficulties like popularity, drinking, faith, friendships, and boys. I loved this book and would give it five stars. It was so realistic and showed how a normal teenage girl handles the problems that life throws at her. I would recommend this book to any girl from ages thirteen to eighteen. Also, I would recommend it to anyone who has questions about how God can complete their life.

In the book Becoming Me,Caitlin O'Conner just turned 16 and she claims it's not so great. She doesn't have a car and her parents are struggling to stay together. Caitlin starts to hang out with a totally different crowd, the popular teenagers, and ditches her not so popular best friend, Beanie. Peers are pressuring her to do many things that do not seem right and so she turns to god for advice. Caitlin starts going to a youth group every Sunday and she gets back together with her best friend. When her youth group leader, Clay, dies everything falls apart and Beanie becomes pregnant. Caitlin then makes a vow that she will not date until she gets older and that she won't have sex and turnout like Beanie until she gets married. If you want to find out if Caitlin keeps her promise, and how Beanie will survive becoming a teenage mom, there are many books to this series.
I liked this book because it portrays some things that could be happening in my life and in my classmate's lives. The Diary of a Teenage girl series would mostly be for girls, and teenagers or older.

This book was written from the viewpoint of a 16-year-old girl writing in her diary. Her name is Caitlin O'Conner. In this, she writes about her friends Beanie, Zach, Josh, Jenny, and Clay. She also writes about her family, which includes Dad, Mom, Aunt Steph, and Benjamin.
Caitlin writes about her struggles of being 16, a junior in high school(The peer pressure in wanting to be popular, the frustration and anger of romance, and in her dad's new "girlfriend", sorrow and anguish from unexpected death, and in her growing relationship with God as a new Christian.
This book is verygood on touching your emotions and seems so real. It is very well written, so it makes you think that it is actually a diary of a 16-year-old girl. The reality of it all makes it all the better and understandable. Taking new twists and unexpected turns makes you want to keep reading.
They're not a lot of things that I didn't like about the book. The author could have made it a LITTLE more unique, since a lot of other books out there are written in a diary form or are about someone's personal thoughts about life. Other than that the author pretty much did an awesome job!
In conclusion, I would rate this book a 5, because it's really that good! I like it because the problems happening are real-life conflicts that I can totally relate to. These things touched my emotions so much that I just wanted to hug someone! I wanted to tell Caitlin that it's all gonna be okay. "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get."