false <![CDATA[Tricks]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1233795884m/5510384.jpg 5510384 1 <b>"When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival."</b> Five teenagers from different parts of the country. Three girls. Two guys. Four straight. One gay. Some rich. Some poor. Some from great families. Some with no one at all. All living their lives as best they can, but all searching...for freedom, safety, community, family, love. What they don't expect, though, is all that can happen when those powerful little words "I love you" are said for all the wrong reasons. Five moving stories remain separate at first, then interweave to tell a larger, powerful story -- a story about making choices, taking leaps of faith, falling down, and growing up. A story about kids figuring out what sex and love are all about, at all costs, while asking themselves, "Can I ever feel okay about myself?" A brilliant achievement from <I>New York Times</i> best-selling author Ellen Hopkins -- who has been called "the bestselling living poet in the country" by mediabistro.com -- <I>Tricks</i> is a book that turns you on and repels you at the same time. Just like so much of life. 5625827 book 25 8 2009 Tricks total:319|5:142|4:104|3:56|2:15|1:2| 319 1326 1549 102 5 14 false false Wed Sep 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 18:22:06 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 06:23:55 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 5 8 false true Wed Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 17:29:47 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 07:11:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 4 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 19:44:44 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 15:06:24 -0700 2009
The reading experience navigates from voyeuristic to heart-wrenching, from promising to shattering....more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Oct 31 01:55:09 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 01:55:32 -0700 2009
Then I started to read it and I was kind of ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 16:10:59 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 00:41:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Oct 01 10:17:34 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 10:53:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 29 09:45:38 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 09:53:35 -0700 2009
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Eden, Ginger, Cody, Seth, and Whitney are teens whose life circumstances have taken them to an increasingly common yet horrible place. Simple survival is their motivation for selling sex for money.

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Eden's parents are very strict and very religious. When she falls for a boy, this could lead to disaster.

Seth is a young man discove...more...]]> 2 2 false false Wed Aug 26 18:53:21 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 20:43:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 11:12:36 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 02:59:51 -0700 2009 once I don't mean to say this isn't good- it's great. I'd definitely go higher than the four stars if ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Oct 26 11:24:23 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 04 10:23:39 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Oct 03 14:54:27 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 07:08:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Nov 17 14:12:55 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 14:23:00 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Sep 14 13:51:57 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 13:58:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 12:54:54 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 13:01:20 -0700 2009
I turned out loving the poetry as novel form. The writing is concise and rich rich rich. The character development is deliberate and complex. I really like all the protagonists and felt great concern about their pred...more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 07:05:18 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 08:14:34 -0700 2009 In the beginning, i started out ill interested in the intros to the live...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 06:32:27 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 07:54:12 -0700 2009
Directions

Why doesn't life come
with them? "Go straight
until you hit sixteen then take a
right,

then proceed slowly
until you're positive
it's okay to hang a
...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Oct 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 20:53:24 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 20:53:24 -0700 2009 But I've read a few other books by Hopkins and her subject matter has never been "happily ever after". This book explores the world of teen prostitution. She takes several different teenaged boys' and girls' lives and follows the various ways they ended up where they ar...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Oct 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 05:43:27 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 07:18:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5510384