Becoming Me: Caitlin: Book 1

One of my friends gave me this book telling me to read it. After I finished I had to buy all the others in the series. Caitlin was my role-model and she will be yours too when you read this amazing book. Her faith in Christ helps her in any situation. A great book for any teenage girl.

At least, it was for me. Last summer (2002), I became a CHristan. Not just going to church every SUnday kind of Christian. I mean, a full out want to know all I can Christian. I had never felt like that before. And I owe it all to this book. I read this book that life-altering summer and couldn't put it down. I spent the whole day reading it. Cailin's struggles were like mine -- I could relate to the character, which compelled me even more. The way the book touched me is indescribable. But I thank Melody Carlson for writing such a memorable, life-touching novel for teenagers. It changed my life, my way of thinking.

I wanted something to read one day, and my daughter had this book (and the others in the series)laying around....so I read them all. This is a WONDERFUL series! The books seem to be "light" reading. My daughter doesn't read a whole lot..but she did read this series and enjoyed each book. The subject matter is just about everything a teenager (or their friends)will experience. Caitlin and her friends don't always make the right choices and there isn't always happy endings. (I don't want to give away any story lines or endings!) My daughter felt the story lines were fairly true to real life...and gave her an "insight" how to deal with different circumstances. As a mother, it gave me the insight as to what a teenager is thinking, feeling, and possibly experiencing.

Caitlin O' Conner was a regular girl not popular and not unpopular. She had one best friend and all she needed was one. She didn't see why you had to alot of friends when all you needed was one true friend. Her best friends name was Beanie. She had one religion, as a Christian, her family got along with each other fine, no relationships, one crush. Along with Caitlin's normal life she was turning 16 and along with that came troubles. on her 16th birthday she had started to become apart of the popular crowd, and from ten on things went wrong, her friendship with Beanie, her religion, her family life, and BIG problems with boys, girls were getting pregnant, and she didn't know if she was going to have sex or not she was scared that it would effect her religion, friends and family. The diary of a teenage girl was the absolute best book that I have ever read. This book had a huge impact on how I see the world, or at least the part I see everyday. The book changed my thoughts because I saw things a little bit different. Maybe it was because I am a teenager myself, and I can understand some of the problems she had. I would highly recomend this book and especially if you are a teenager. I guarantee you will see thingd in your enviroment differently. Like I said I am a teenager and it made a huge impact on me.

I am a Christian teen, and usually I don't expect much out of Christian books. The few that are out there seem to be by authors who are obviously in a dream world and don't really understand anything we go through, though they try to act like they do- while forcing their beliefs on us. Not very trustworthy. But this book is different. It's like she really knows what we go through... Now I don't have the exact same problems as Caitlin, but I have a lot that are just as serious, just as heartwrenching, and just as life-ruining. (I realize that sounds like a soap opera.) And while I read the book, I kind of felt that I was growing spiritually with Caitlin. I'm definitely still struggling as hard as I was, but now I feel a little bit more trusting to God, knowing that pretty much all teens have problems as bad as mine- and God didn't just give me the short end of the stick!