Go Ask Alice
By: by Beatrice Sparks.
Edition: Movie Tie-In Edition, 13th printing
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Published: 1974
Place of publication: Englewood Cliffs, N.J., USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9780133571110
Copyright date: 1971
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography - General; Social Issues - Drugs, Alcohol, & Substance Abuse; Children's Books/Young Adult Social Situations
First sentence: Yesterday I remember thinking I was the happiest person in the whole earth, in the whole galaxy, in all of God's creation.
Description: 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