Most Popular Books by Beatrice Sparks

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

Who in his right mind wants to talk to a shrink? I don''t want to talk about anything. I don''t want to feel anything, taste anything ... or anything. The lyrics "just dying to die" run around in my brain day and night... Fifteen-year-old Sam is in pain. He comes to the therapist''s office unwillingly, angry, depressed, and filled with guilt over his own self-destructive behavior. He is being drawn deeper and deeper into a black hole of despair from which he sees no way out. The Road Back This is the Real-life story of Sam''s Recovery, told from tapes of his therapy sessions. It tells what drove him to leave home, how he survived on the street, and why he was desperate to escape from the brutality of the gang that had become his "family" and from the torment of his own self-loathing. For every teen who has experienced the pain and loneliness of a no-way-out darkness, and for all those who love them, here is the light that can lead the way back.

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?

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?

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?

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?

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