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268 pp.
| Simon Pulse |
May, 2012 |
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.