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259 pp.
| Simon Pulse
| June, 2015
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TradeISBN 978-1-4814-3902-2$17.99
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PaperISBN 978-1-4814-3901-5$9.99
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EbookISBN 978-1-4814-3903-9
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YA
A teen crumbling under the weight of familial pressure and responsibilities spirals into a life of prostitution in this anonymous "diary." The sensational topic will draw in some readers, but accepting the narrative as an authentic account requires some serious suspension of disbelief. Instead, this reads as a cautionary tale with a heartbreaking (but entirely predictable) ending.
277 pp.
| Simon Pulse
| June, 2013
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TradeISBN 978-1-4424-7223-5$17.99
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PaperISBN 978-1-4424-7213-6$9.99
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YA
This book ("in the tradition of Go Ask Alice") is ostensibly the found journal of an anorexic teen. The girl, a star runner, starts obsessively keeping track of her caloric intake after her father leaves her (overweight) mother. She starts to recover, then, as Alice fans can predict, things go terribly wrong. An over-the-top but engaging cautionary tale.
268 pp.
| Simon Pulse
| May, 2012
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TradeISBN 978-1-4424-5187-2$17.99
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PaperISBN 978-1-4424-5185-8$9.99
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YA
This book "in the tradition of Go Ask Alice" (i.e., bogus found-journal) follows one teen's spiral from good girl to drug addict to worse. All the capital-I Issues are covered: gateway drugs, date rape, betrayal, denial, self-loathing, etc. While the unnamed narrator's cautionary tale is unlikely to scare anyone straight, her voice is believably modern-sounding and the story is diverting.