Go Ask Alice

Paperback, 232 pages

English language

Published Jan. 7, 2006 by Simon Pulse.

ISBN:
978-1-4169-1463-1
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OCLC Number:
1104883103

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It started when she was served a soft drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to the mean streets of an unforgiving city. It was a journey that would rob her of her innocence, her youth -- and ultimately her life.

Read her diary.

Enter her world.

You will never forget her.

For thirty-five years, the acclaimed, bestselling first-person account of a teenage girl's harrowing descent into the nightmarish world of drugs has left an indelible mark on generations of teen readers. As powerful—and as timely—today as ever, Go Ask Alice remains the definitive book on the horrors of addiction. --back cover

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This is a propaganda book passed off as nonfiction and written to discourage kids from doing drugs. I know a lot of people had a connection to the book and that it did impact some growing up so that's why I don't want to rate it. I'm an adult with a whole lotta life experience and it's not a book that was written for me. I do feel it's more antiquated at this point because fear tactics are not the best way to discourage drug use in teens, so it's not something that I would ever give to my kids to read. I understand now why my library does not have a physical copy of this book available.

Subjects

  • Social Situations - Adolescence
  • Social Issues - Adolescence
  • Drug abuse
  • Juvenile Fiction
  • Children's 12-Up - Fiction - General
  • Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12)
  • Social Situations - Drugs, Alcohol, & Substance Abuse
  • Social Issues - Drugs, Alcohol, & Substance Abuse
  • Juvenile Fiction / Social Situations / Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse
  • Diaries
  • Fiction