<P> The book was adapted into the 1973 television film Go Ask Alice, starring Jamie Smith - Jackson and William Shatner . In 1976, a stage play of the same name, written by Frank Shiras and based on the book, was also published . </P> <P> The title was taken from a line in the 1967 Grace Slick - penned Jefferson Airplane song "White Rabbit" ("go ask Alice / when she's ten feet tall"); the lyrics in turn reference scenes in Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, in which the title character Alice eats and drinks various things, including a mushroom, that makes her grow larger or smaller . Slick's song is understood as using Carroll's story as a metaphor for a drug experience . </P> <P> In 1968, a 14 - year - old girl begins keeping a diary, in which she records her thoughts and concerns about issues such as crushes, weight loss, sexuality, social acceptance, and relating to her parents . The dates and locations mentioned in the book place its events as occurring between 1968 and 1970 in California, Colorado, Oregon, and New York City . The two towns in which the diarist's family reside during the story are not identified, and are only described as being college towns . </P> <P> The diarist's father, a college professor, accepts a dean position at a new college, causing the family to relocate . The diarist has difficulty adjusting to her new school, but soon becomes best friends with a girl named Beth . When Beth leaves for summer camp, the diarist returns to her hometown to stay with her grandparents . She meets an old school acquaintance, who invites her to a party . There, glasses of cola--some of which are laced with LSD--are served . The diarist unwittingly ingests LSD and has an intense and pleasurable trip . Over the following days the diarist socializes with the other teens from the party, willingly uses more drugs, and loses her virginity while on LSD . She worries that she may be pregnant, and her grandfather has a minor heart attack . Overwhelmed by her worries, the diarist begins to take sleeping pills, first stolen from her grandparents, then later prescribed by her doctor upon returning home . Her friendship with Beth ends, as both girls have moved in new directions . </P>

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