Lucy in the Sky by Anonymous
The appeal of this book, as well as the other two I bought during the same bookstore trip, is that it was written in the tradition of Go Ask Alice, which I read sometime in the past five years. It's written as a journal that is left behind by someone who met an unsavory end, in this case, a drug overdose. The problem I had with this one was that it was predictable, as if the author was trying too hard to emulate the predecessor. A teenager reading this may not be as discerning as I am, though, and if it keeps even one kid from doing drugs, then the reading will be a success.
The girl in this book, whose name you really don't know (it isn't necessarily Lucy), just turned 16. She lives on the beach in California, has an older brother, and not a lot of friends. In going to yoga with her brother, she meets a boy, Ross, who ultimately introduces the narrator to pot. In going to a party with her brother, she meets Lauren, who introduces her to cosmos.
The narrator spirals out of control: pot, cosmos, LSD, cocaine, Xanax, meth, heroine. She ends up in rehab, but unfortunately, nothing stops her destructive behavior in the end.
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