Go Ask Alice

Hardcover, 159 pages

English language

Published Nov. 7, 1974 by Prentice-Hall.

ISBN:
978-0-13-357111-0
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OCLC Number:
164716

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Alice is fifteen, white, middle-class. She diets. She dates. She gets decent grades. She fights with her youger brother and sister. She has her own room. She thinks someday she'd like to get married and raise a family.

On July 9, Alice is turned on to acid. She digs it. Acid makes the world a better place. So do all the other ups. They open up the world of sex. They make Alice feel free. Sometimes Alice worries about taking drugs. She thinks maybe she shouldn't. But, she figures life is more bearable with drugs than without.

Alice's parents don't know what's happening. They notice changes. They think Alice might be "associating with the wrong people." They have no idea... --front flap

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This is a propaganda book passed off as nonfiction and written to discourage kids from doing drugs. I know a lot of people had a connection to the book and that it did impact some growing up so that's why I don't want to rate it. I'm an adult with a whole lotta life experience and it's not a book that was written for me. I do feel it's more antiquated at this point because fear tactics are not the best way to discourage drug use in teens, so it's not something that I would ever give to my kids to read. I understand now why my library does not have a physical copy of this book available.

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Subjects

  • Biography & Autobiography - General
  • Social Issues - Drugs, Alcohol, & Substance Abuse
  • Children's Books/Young Adult Social Situations