Becoming Me: Caitlin: Book 1

By Melody Carlson

In the fictional Diary of a Teenage Girl, sixteen-year-old Caitlin O'Conner reveals the inner workings of a girl caught between childhood and womanhood ... an empty life without Christ and a meaningful one with Him. Through Caitlin's candid journal entries we see her grapple with such universal teen issues as peer pressure, loyalty, conflict with parents, the longing for a boyfriend, and her own spirituality. Readers will laugh and cry with Caitlin as she struggles toward self-discovery and understanding God's plan for her life. And they'll be deeply moved by her surprising commitment regarding dating.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Release date: Jul 7, 2010
• ISBN: 9781588601032

Melody Carlson

Melody Carlson has written more than 200 books for teens, women, and children. Before publishing, Melody traveled around the world, volunteered in teen ministry, taught preschool, raised two sons, and worked briefly in interior design and later in international adoption. "I think real-life experiences inspire the best fiction," she says. Her wide variety of books seems to prove this theory.

Reviews for Becoming Me

[abundabookworms · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This was a fairly accurate look at what goes on in the mind of a "normal" 16-year-old girl. However, there aren't too many "normal" 16-year-old girls.

[emha906 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This book was pretty good. Although, I found the characters to not be as realistic as I would have liked them.

[erin94_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I really liked this book, can't wait to read the next one.

[hooray_1 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Having kept journals throughout my teenage years and re-reading them from time to time, I can soundly affirm that this dreck is indeed typical of a teenage girl's diary. Unrealistic, falsely omniscient, and very typically American in it's everyone lived happily ever after ending. What disturbed me is this girl thinks about nothing except her social life and her relationship with god. She doesn't read, she doesn't ponder, she doesn't seem to think beyond omphaloskepsis. And by your senior year, that should not be the case.

[olym02 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I love this book. It totally related to me, it also helped knowing there are others struggling with their christian walk and there is help

[nm5fall075e5ramon · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Diary of a teenage girl was a really good book.I really liked how its about only a teenage girl and it dosnt go off topic. i liked it because she is a teenage girl and so am i so i can relate to her in some weird way. the way she talkes about the boys is true, we only want the guys to look at us and if we like some one we would do stupid things for them and then later on we regret what we did. i would recomend it to all the girls that like to read about teenage love.