I can see how 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students would connect with this book.  It gives them a great visual of what a notebook or journal can look like or become.  Amelia’s personality is all through this book and the reader gets to know her better after reading each page.  I loved how at the end when Amelia realize she has a good life and the good out weights the bad in her life.  This notebook will connect with girls that feel they have to “fit in” and how they always feel like they don’t.  I was one of those girls in school.  Amelia made herself see the positive in her life as well as the negative and she learned from it.  Your life is a  reflection of yourself it’s just up to you to look at it and learn from the good and the bad.