Go Ask Alice
This is the story of a 15-year-old American drug addict. Based on the pages of her diary, it tells how Alice discovered drugs, sex and the kind of freedom her parents only disapproved of. Sometimes she worries about what is happening to her; sometimes she resorts to subterfuge to avoid worrying...
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This is the story of a 15-year-old American drug addict. Based on the pages of her diary, it tells how Alice discovered drugs, sex and the kind of freedom her parents only disapproved of. Sometimes she worries about what is happening to her; sometimes she resorts to subterfuge to avoid worrying her family; and sometimes she confides all her anxieties, joys and sorrows to the one friend she can trust - her diary.
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ISBN:
9780788706905 (078870690X)
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Teen,
Classics,
Literature,
Realistic Fiction,
Drama,
Contemporary,
Banned Books,
Psychology,
High School,
Diary
by Anonymous I read this Classic many years ago, but had forgotten most of it so tried a sample and it held my interest enough to pay the 1.99 Kindle price so I could keep going, though I hadn't yet got to the 'meat' of the story. It's about an ordinary young girl in America who has a lot of ins...
I don't know what to say about this book. I don't know how I feel about this book. This book was haunting. It was horrifying. It was sad. It was heartbreaking. This is basically a handbook for what not to do when you're a teenager. This poor girl. I can't even pretend to imagine what it wa...
This is one of those books that I felt like everyone had read as a teenager except me, and I had no clue what it was even about. You know, given the title and the fact that I'm familiar with the song that uses the same reference, I really ought to have known. I have to admit that this was kind o...
Raw. So real that you want to jump into the story and help her. I connect with her on so many levels with my history of addiction. I was older than her though, she was only 15, but a lot of the emotions and general events are similar. There is no happy ending. This is not some mediocre story about ...
I read this many years ago as a young teenager, and I'm sure I still have my paperback copy of this book boxed up somewhere. Go Ask Alice is about a teenage girl who gets addicted to drugs. It is written in the form of her diary, and as a teenager myself at the time, it was impossible not to put m...
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