| This book is a journal/diary of a teenage girl. She has a normal life, with a mom, a dad, and a younger brother and sister. She doesn't really fit in all that well at school, but she gets along. Then, her parents buy a new house and she gets to move to a new school. They move over the summer, so she gets to go back and visit her grandparents, back where she used to live. She bumps into one girl she used to know who went to her school, and gets invited to a party. During the party, she ends up taking an LSD and trips. She didn't know it, but the drugs were in the sodas.
While she's at her grandparent's house, she trys more and more new drugs. Then, she finally goes home and swears to herself that she wouldn't do drugs any more. But, she ends up doing them. She meets this girl named Chris, who is a year older then her. Eventually, they run away together. They begin on drugs again, but quit because they didn't have enough money. After finding a good job, but quitting because of the crazy boss, the girls have enough money to open up their own little clothes shop. The girls get tired of living on their own adn decide to go home. Everything is going well... until one day she gets high and leaves without Chris to a little town on her own and gets very involved with drugs again. A local church helps her contact her parents after about 3 months, and again she goes home. She eventually goes insane and ends up in a mental hospital. She gets out and in the end, she kills herself. | ||
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Plot & Themes Tone of book? - depressed Time/era of story - 1960's-1970's Kids growing up/acting up? Yes Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book Age group of kid(s) in story: - high school Wild kid(s)? - druggie culture (& crime) Loving/sexing? - guy chasing Main Character Gender - Female Profession/status: Age: - a teen Ethnicity/Nationality Main Adversary Identity: - Female Age: - a teen Profession/status: Eccentric/Smart/Dumb: Yes Eccentric: How sensitive is this character? Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor Intelligence - Average intelligence Setting How much descriptions of surroundings? - 4 () United States Yes Writing Style Sex in book? Yes What kind of sex: - vague references only - two guys doing it - rape/molest Amount of dialog - little dialog |
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