It Happened to Nancy
- 241pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
The editor of the classic GO ASK ALICE has compiled the poignant journals of a 14-year-old date-rape victim who contracted AIDS and died.
Beatrice Sparks Libri
Beatrice Sparks è stata un'autrice americana nota per i suoi libri presentati come i 'diari reali' di adolescenti problematici. Queste opere affrontano temi di attualità come l'abuso di droghe, il satanismo, la gravidanza adolescenziale o l'AIDS, servendo come racconti ammonitori. Sparks si è presentata come la scopritrice e curatrice di questi diari, sebbene i registri indichino che sia stata accreditata come unica autrice. Spinta dalle sue esperienze con gli adolescenti, mirava a creare narrazioni che avvertissero altri giovani a non cadere in trappole simili.
Go Ask Alice
- 161pagine
- 6 ore di lettura
Based on the diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user chronicling her struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.
Annie's Baby
- 256pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
When Annie discovers she's pregnant by her boyfriend, she's devastated. She has never felt so alone. With no one she can talk to, she pours her heart out to her diary, confiding her feelings of panic, self-doubt, and the desperate hope that some day she can turn her life around. She decides she wants to keep her baby and dreams of loving and caring for this little person. But after the baby is born, it's in her diary that she faces the agonizing question: Can she really raise this child on her own?
When Kim can't handle things, she eats. Then she purges. Sometimes she fasts. She knows she isn't as thin as the other girls on her gymnastics team, and she's worried that now, away from home for the first time as a college freshman, she won't be able to live up to expectations -- especially her own. Eating is the one thing she can control -- or can she?
