Becoming Me/It's My Life/Who I Am (Diary of a Teenage Girl: Caitlin 1-3)

Becoming Me/It's My Life/Who I Am (Diary of a Teenage Girl: Caitlin 1-3) by Carlson, Melody. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781590526392.

This box set includes three titles from the Diary of a Teenage Girl series by best-selling author Melody Carlson. Becoming Me In the fictional Diary of a Teenage Girl, sixteen-year-old Caitlin OConner reveals the inner workings of a girl caught between childhood and womanhood ... an empty life without Christ and a meaningful one with Him. Through Caitlins 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. Its My Life Caitlin OConner faces new trials as she grows in her faith and strives to maintain the recent commitments shes made to God. As a new believer, Caitlin begins her summer job and makes preparations for a Mexico mission trip with her church youth group. Torn between new spiritual directions and loyalty to Beanie, her best friend (now pregnant), Caitlin searches out her personal values on friendship, romance, dating, life goals, and key relationships with God and family. Tough choices threaten her progress, and her year climaxes in her realization that maturity sometimes means life-impacting decisions must be made ... by faith alone. Who I Am Its challenging enough to be a normal high school senior -- but Caitlin OConner has a host of new difficulties to deal with in the third book of Melody Carlsons widely popular and fascinating teen series. Time is critical to help the orphans in Mexico, missions-minded Caitlin believes, but Mom and Dad are set on her attending college. Meanwhile, her relationship with Josh takes on a serious tone via e-mail -- threatening her commitment to "kiss dating goodbye." When Beanie begins dating an African-American, Caitlins concern over dating seems to be misread as racism. One thing is obvious: God is at work through this dynamic girl in very real but puzzling ways. A soul-stretching time of racial reconciliation at school and within her church helps her discover Gods will as never before.