Go Ask Alice
By Anonymous
(Simon Pulse, Paperback, 9781416914631, 224pp.)
Publication Date: December 27, 2005
Other Editions of This Title: DVD-Video, Hardcover, Mass Market Paperback, Prebound, Prebound, Paperback
Categories: Social Issues - Adolescence, Social Issues - Drugs, Alcohol, & Substance Abuse
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January 24th
After you've had it, there isn't even life without drugs....
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 decent 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.
The Boston Globe ...a book that all teenagers and parents of teenagers should really read.
School Library Journal This novel in diary form powerfully depicts the confusions of adolescence. Its impact cannot be denied.
The New York Times [This] extraordinary work for teenagers is a document of horrifying reality and literary quality.
Library Journal An important book, this deserves as wide a readership as libraries can give it.
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