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// Go and ask Alice // is a diary about drugs and teenagers leaving home. Through the book we are reading a diary and it’s based on a true story. Alice, which is the girl who writes the book, is 16 years old and has all the issues other teenagers have.

One day her father gets a new job in a new school. At her new school she meets a friend, called Bella. She is Jew and Alice can tell her everything. When school is over Bella has to go to a Jew school for 6 weeks. Alice decides to go to her grandparents who live where she lived before, for the summer. She gets asked to a party by Jill, which she hardly knows. At the party she gets LCD in her drink. Here is when it all starts. Through the whole summer she is taking drugs and party all the time. She don’t manage to quit taking drugs when the summer is over, which she was going to. One day she runs away with her new friend Chris to LA to start over. It doesn’t go so well so they come back. When she comes back her grandfather is very sick and dies. Alice knows that the reason her grandfather dies is because she has been taking drugs, and that it made him weak. The loss of her grandfather makes her very sad and she feels like it is her foul. But she doesn’t take drugs anymore. This is at the winter, and she has missed a half a year from school. When she starts at school again, to take the rest of the school year, she meets a boy called Joel. She gets closed to him and she falls in love. One day she baby-sits at the neighbour’s baby. The next thing she knows is that she is in a hospital and not feeling well. They told her that she had been taking drugs, which she didn’t have. At her school she had been having trouble with her old friends who took drugs. They wanted her back in the drug life. Alice found out that they had put drug in her chocolate. After she gets better she gets sent to a physic hospital, where she meets lots of other who has the same problem, only worse. After some months she gets out with help from her parents. At her birthday she meets Joel and has the best birthday ever. At the day of her birthday she quit writing dairy. Only three weeks later she end up dead with an over dose. Nobody knows who did it or what happened to her.

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