Go Ask Alice, was a real diary of a young girl. The author of the book was anonymous. It was written and published in March 1998, by Simon & Schuster Inc, in New York. There were no specific settings in this book because Alice ran away from home a lot and went all over the place. Although the book didn’t state the exact places she lived in, it did say that she went from her small …showed first 75 words of 923 total…

…showed last 75 words of 923 total…kept another dairy. The purpose of the book was to inform people of the terrible consequences with you get involved with drugs. It showed how much power drugs can have over a person’s life and how much it can impact the person physically and mentally. The message was meant to scare people and for them to stay away from drugs. The book gave the reader some insight about what happens with actual drug users.