Go ask Alice, The Body, Me and Emma - Age of innocence synopsis's

Go ask Alice - 'Anonymous' 

It seems within an unrestrained and darkly themed book, lies a story told from the diary of a young teenage girl. 
Humbling enough, at first the narrator expresses her thoughts on social acceptance, sexuality, crushes, and other concerns made by many young people experiencing the development of growing up, and by this girl in-particular, the process of moving, and finding acceptance in the midst of a new school. But, dramatic and unpleasant events occur after taking an LSD drug at a party.

This fictional account sends a girl inside a turmoil of abuse, crime, exploitation and corruption. 
Not only does this novel expose how drugs can have a strangely seductive pull to teenagers especially, it also outlines many troubling feelings that they experience; the reader can empathize with characters this way. Although this book is fictional,  it doesn't prevent depicting real life obstacles and struggles. 

The Body - Stephen King

In this novella - which was later developed to be a film in 1986 - the 'King of Horror' generates a story which reveals his strengths and versatility as a writer.
Four adolescent boys set out on a journey, initially from the sense of adventure and flurrying excitement, searching for what's rumored to be the place of a corpse; a boy recently killed presumably by a train.
What doesn't seem to be the case with these characters, or on such an obvious level of their understanding, is grasping the idea of how this experience will initiate their progress in maturing, and that they will be entering a world far away from childish, unrealistic dreams.

It seems through King's writing, the reader can recognize the narrator's (one of the boys, Gordon Lachance) perception as he looks back nostalgically on his childhood, although all four are surrounded by various abusive and dysfunctional environments, they all find comfort within the connection of love found between friends. This is where their true innocence lies; in the experience of friendship, they find each-others company in a journey more relevant and stimulating than the prospect of finding a body. Later, this only occurs to them when they meet death 'face to face', and is purposefully more disturbing by the boy being of similar age to them, acting like a reflection to their own mortality.

Me and Emma - Elizabeth Flock

Carrie, the narrator of this story, is an eight-year-old timid and introverted girl, who struggles along wit her little sister for survival with an unstable mother - damaged by her husband's murder - and an abusive, terrifying stepfather.
The contrast between now and her past is startling, before her father's death, their family in her perspective is illustrated in a pleasant and cheerful light, full of attentive love received from her father. Whilst now, the narrators mind is unsettled and confused by the world around her, highlighting how strongly young children can be affected by events in their lives, which could as a result, cause a dramatic change in their own attitudes, personality, and bearings on reality, as this all comes to a stand by as shocking and unexpected twist at the end of the novel.

Although unaware of it, Carrie begins her journey of discovery younger than perhaps most children, as the exposure to death and violence can drive the rate of revelation at a faster rate, but not necessarily a healthy one.