The book that I read is called Go Ask Alice by Anonymous. This book starts out with a normal young high school girl who is always thinking. Worried about her weight, boys, and having trouble trying to get along with her parents. Along with all of that she just moved to a new town, which means she’ll be going to a new school. She starts to feel like the outcast at school and doesn’t have any friends. But soon after she moves she makes friends with a neighbor of hers, her name is Beth.
As summer rolls around Beth leaves goes to a summer camp so Alice decides that she needs some time away. Alice decided that she is going to go live with her grandparents for a while. While she is at her grandparents she meets up with an old friend Jill. After they get done talking Jill said that she would be giving Alice a call to hang out sometime. “Oh Diary, I’m so happy I could cry! It did happen! Jill called at exactly 10:32. I know because I’d been sitting by the phone with my watch in my hand trying to send ESP signals to her. She’s having a few kids over for an autograph party, thank heavens I brought my year book…” Pg. 30. Little did Alice know it wasn’t just an autograph party. They played a game called “Button, Button, Who’s Got The Button?”. They brought out Coke’s for everyone to drink, “… 10 out of the 14 bottles of coke had LSD in them and, “button, button,” no one knew just who would wind up with them.” Alice enjoying the trip she got, made her want to try more drugs.
Getting into many situations that has led her to run away from home to get a “better life” has simply not happened exactly how she planned. From starvation, to prostitution to get drugs, living in dirty homes, sleeping on playgrounds, Alice has had a pretty bad time with drugs. As many times as she’s tried to quit she ends up going back to it. Once she realizes she needs help she decides to go back home. Always living in fear and promising herself not to relapse.
I recommend this book to anyone. For someone who doesn’t really enjoy reading, I loved this book. Hearing these little parts of this girl’s life and what she went through is very interesting. You definitely can feel what she’s feeling at the moment in the book.
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