This was pretty good until the middle when that magical thing happens (that sometimes does in books but not in real life) where all of a sudden the main character fixes her life and everything is way better. Um... that would be nice. I would recommend this to kids if it didn't do that. But I feel that books like this give false impressions about how hard it is (not as easy as they make it seem) to get yourself out of certain tendencies. I have mixed feelings about this book.