New Releases by Beatrice Sparks

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.

Fourteen-year-old Jennie''s life is turning upside down. Her father has walked out, and her anguished mother seeks solace in pills. Her best friend practically abandons her to be with a boyfriend. It seems like Jennie''s real best friend is her diary. Then she meets Mr. Johnstone, the substitute math teacher. Jennie has never met such a charismatic teacher. She feels honored when Mr. J. seems to single her out for special attention, and begins to fantasize about him as her boyfriend. When Mr. J. first reveals his feelings for her, she is thrilled by the relationship that grows outside the classroom walls. Then, slowly, Jennie''s diary becomes a record of her loneliness, pain, and confusion. Will it also offer her a way to escape from this treacherous love?

This appealing teen read tells the story of Katie, a teen from an abused home, and her journey through foster care. Katie is always surrounded by wealth, but feels terribly alone because of the secret horror of her angry, abusive father. When she''s thrown out of her house and put into foster care, it seems like the end of the world. But as she moves through the foster care system, she begins to realize that she can help others. Can she, at last, find courage and strength of her own?

I am so scared. I feel like I''m silently screaming for help and no one pays any attention of tries to hear me. I can''t control anything anymore. It''s all out to get me! 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?

Journal of a teen who becomes involved in witchcraft and the occult.

The classic work of a 15-year-old drug user who chronicles her daily struggleto escape the pull of the drug world.