Go Ask Alice
by Anonymous (Beatrice Sparks)

Subjects: Drug Abuse  
Genre: Realistic Fiction

This is the story of a normal person like all of you, a 15 year old girl named Alice.  This is her diary that covers the around two years of her life.  It describes her descent into drugs: first being slipped cocaine at a party and finally into the hard drugs.  Her entries reveal her life and activities an how drugs changed her life. It tells of her struggle to escape the pull of drugs. Can your choice of friends destroy you? I can stop anytime I want to, can't I? Am I responsible for what happens when I am stoned? If you want to find the answers to these questions and take a good hard look at how easy it is to slip into drugs, read Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks.

Booktalk prepared by Janice Bailey, East Central High Librarian