"Go Ask Alice"

So this year my friend Aleasha was telling me about this book called "Go Ask Alice" and i looked at it and thought it looked scary. But i was at Target yesterday and i saw it on a shelf. I said to my mom "Oh my friend read this and she loved it." and my mom said that not only has she read it but was in the play in high school. She told me i could buy it so i was all happy cause i got a new book. So I'm babysitting last night and the kids are in bed so i pull out my new book. The book is a Diary of a drug addict and is real. All the names and places are changed but it really is a diary of a 15 year old girl living in the 70's who did hard drugs. The first few entries are okay. you find out that the girl is moving because of her dad getting a new teaching job. She moves and hates it because she has no friends. She makes plans to go back to her Gan's (grandma) place and stay with her grand parents over the summer and see her old friends and her old love interest Roger. Then she meets Beth, this Jewish girl who really doesn't fit in like our main character. So her and Beth become besties and are planning to spend summer together. Beth's mom then sends Beth to Jewish camp for summer. Now or main character is back to going to her grandparents place for summer. One of the popular girls from her old school invites her to a party and she gets really happy because she never was noticed by them before. So she gets to the party and Jill (the girl who invited her) says they're going to play button button. (that's the game where 1 person has a button and you try to find out who. In this case they have 14 bottles of Coke and 10 are laced with LSD) Our main character happens to have one of those 10 bottles of Coke. And her whole life goes down hill from there.

SPOILER ALERT IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO KNOW THE END OF THIS NOVEL PLEASE DO NOT READ THIS NEXT PART!!!!!

So the way the book ends is our main character after being through all this pain and suffering is finally clean and has a boyfriend and she is doing amazing in school. She dies 3 weeks after turning 17. I finished the book at 1:40 am and i cried until 2 o'clock. After reading this true account of this girls life you get so attached. Its like you know her personally. It was so sad. Then i thought of the people i know who do drugs and i cried for them and how they are DESTROYING THEIR LIVES! Anyway its a great book and i suggest it to everyone over the age of 14 because it is very explicit. please ask your parents before reading this i would even have them read it if they get the chance :)