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The book is a diary written by Alice that uses drugs.  Alice worries about what her crush Roger thinks of her, she loathes her weight gain, she fears her sexuality, she is uncomfortable at school, and she has difficult relationship to her parents. Alice is not happy. When her parents tell her that they are going to move to another town because her father got a new job, she gets anything but sad. She actually can’t wait to start all over again. The family adapts to the move well, but Alice feels like an outsider at school.

After a while she meets Beth and they get best friends. In the summer Beth is going on summer camp and Alice spends a few weeks at her grandparents in her old town. One day a girl named Jill asks her to hang out with her and some of her friends, and that’s when it all changes. Jill and her friends do drugs and they give Alice some LSD in her drink. Alice loves it and feels like she gets a new value in her life. She spends the whole summer partying with Jill.

When she gets home she meet Chris that also is a drug user. They move to L.A to live their life. Right before Christmas she feels bad and calls her parents and asks if she can come home. She gets home and promises herself that she’s never going to use drugs again.

It doesn’t go long before she and Chris is on the road again, and she forgets why she left that mess behind her last time. One day the police raid Chris apartment when they do drugs, but she keeps do drugs without her parents’ knowledge. She hitchhikes to Denver and travel around with other drug users. She takes a lot of drugs and even prostitutes herself. One day she talks to a priest about teenage runaways, and he calls her parents.

Alice is happy about renewing her life with her family, and is sure that she never is going to do drugs again. Her social life is worse. Everyone at school knows about her past, and no one wants to talk to her. The other drug users at schools won’t leave her alone and try to sell her drugs. One day when Alice is babysitting, a girl goes into the house and leaves a chocolate-covered peanuts bar with LSD at the table. Alice believes that the mother of the children left it for her, and eats it. She wakes up at a mental hospital. Her parents visit her, and bring a letter from her boyfriend Joel. They have told him all about her past, but Joel doesn’t care. He loves her! It doesn’t go long before Alice comes home, and she meets Fawn, a good girl at school. She has a fun time with Fawn's friends and hopes that they have not heard stories about her. Joel makes a surprise visit and gives her a friendship ring, which she promises to wear her whole life. Alice is doing really well, and after her birthday she decides to quit writing a diary.

In the end we get to know that her parents found Alice dead 3 weeks later of an overdose.

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