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Welcome to my book blog. I hope that you will come often and explore some of the books we have available at the Wonewoc-Center School Library. I will try to post books as I book talk them or just read them for the fun of it. I hope you will join this blog and add your comments. I would love to hear your comments about these books and others. Happy Reading! Mrs. Chipman

Monday, August 9, 2010

Crank by Ellen Hopkins


16 year old Kristina goes to visit her estranged father and is soon introduced to a totally different world than where she lives with her mother and stepfather. Her alter ego, Bree tries crank out with her dad and is hooked. Back at home with her mother, Kristina feels ignored and smothered, and needs more drugs and more boys. Crank is a page turner that will grab you and hold on almost as tight as the drug for which it is named. Hopkins uses all kinds of creative verse, and plays with spacing on the page, sometimes providing two alternative readings.

Crank is the first book in a trilogy... check out Glass and Fallout to see what else happens to Kristina.


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