Crank (Crank, #1) in Pick-a-Shelf

Jun 26, 2011 Joanie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2011, from-the-library, young-adult

Crank is a brutal story about a high school girl who gets hooked on meth. The book is laid out more like poetry than a novel with some pages having only a few words, the text shaped like hearts, arrows, the letter "E." The format makes for an incredibly fast read and leads to full immersion into Kristina/Bree's story.

As if the story wasn't harrowing enough, the author's note in three beginning stating that it was based on her own daughter's descent into Meth makes it even worse. I had a knot in ...more

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Sep 10, 2009 Kate rated it it was amazing

I love Ellen Hopkins. She isn't afraid to address the hard topics. And drug addiction is a hard topic. This book made me glad that I have never experimented with drugs. Or ever had a boyfriend who pressured me to do something I didn't want to do... or made me feel like I should be doing something that I shouldn't be.

Ellen Hopkins really knows how to pull on your heartstrings. The choices and decisions that Kristina (or Bree) make are all ones that I would never want to make. It was hard to watch ...more

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Jan 02, 2010 Ashley rated it really liked it

Shelves: young-adult, series, 2010

What a powerful book. I can't believe I have had it on my tbr for so long without picking it up. This really was written great and the verse style flew and before I knew it 100 pages had passed. I have gone out already and got the next 2 in the series because I knew I would have to find out what was going on in her life next. ...more

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