Awards

• Short-listed for Green Mountain Book Award 2009
• Winner of Delaware Diamonds Award (High School) 2009

Overview

Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina -- she's fearless. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild, ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul -- her life.

Full Product Details

Author:   Ellen Hopkins
Publisher:   Simon & Schuster
Imprint:   Simon Pulse
Dimensions:   Width: 12.70cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 17.80cm
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9780689865190

ISBN 10:   0689865198
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   01 October 2004
Recommended Age:   From 14 years
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  Young adult ,  Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  Children / Juvenile ,  Teenage / Young adult
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   In Print  
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Hypnotic and jagged free verse wrenchingly chronicles 16-year-old Kristina's addiction to crank. Kristina's daring alter ego, Bree, emerges when gentle clouds of monotony smother Kristina's life-when there's nothing to do and no one to connect with. Visiting her neglectful and druggy father for the first time in years, Bree meets a boy and snorts crank (methamphetamine). The rush is irresistible and she's hooked, despite a horrible crank-related incident with the boy's other girlfriend. Back home with her mother, Kristina feels both ignored and smothered, needing more drugs and more boys-in that order. One boy is wonderful and one's a rapist, but it's crank holding Bree up at this point. The author's sharp verse plays with spacing on the page, sometimes providing two alternate readings. In a too brief wrap-up, Kristina keeps her baby (a product of rape) while Hopkins-realistically-offers no real conclusion. Powerful and unsettling. (author's note) (Fiction. YA) (Kirkus Reviews)

Author Information

Ellen Hopkins is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of fourteen young adult novels, as well as the adult novels Triangles, Collateral, and Love Lies Beneath. She lives with her family in Carson City, Nevada, where she has founded Ventana Sierra, a nonprofit youth housing and resource initiative. Visit her at EllenHopkins.com and on Facebook, and follow her on Twitter at @EllenHopkinsLit.

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