Anna's Story, by Bronwyn Donaghy, is a text about the truth behind the life and death of Anna Wood, a fifteen year old who died after taking an ecstasy tablet at a rave. Anna is what the book describes as the typical teenager with a typical, loving family who cared enough about her to write a book based on her story. It seems that she took an ecstasy tablet not because she had a broken home, not because she didn't have any friends, but because of the availability of drugs and the lack of drug education. Anna's story provides us with the perfect example of the characteristic `good girl' who made one wrong, uninformed choice and shocked a community with her death.

Anna's Story, though non-fiction, takes a fiction-like narrative through-out the text. Anna's Story devoted a chapter of the text to each of Anna's family members and...