Update : If you liked WRECKED by Heather Henson, add CRANK to your reading list. It’s pretty amazing to me how Ellen Hopkins paints such vivid pictures with her words and draws us into the stories of people we might overlook or judge in real life. I think the thing that stands out to me is how starkly each scene is portrayed, even though it’s told in shorter lines of poetry rather than paragraphs of prose. Crank The 1 New York Times bestselling tale of addiction-the first in the Crank trilogy-from master poet Ellen Hopkins. I'm drawn to young adult books about addiction and 'life falling apart' type events. This is the first novel in verse that I’ve ever read. Any suggestions for books like Crank or Go Ask Alice I've read Crank, Glass, Go Ask Alice, and Jay's Journal and I love them all. They flow from scene to scene very smoothly, capturing the raw emotion of the heroine– her desperation, heartache– and the downward spiral of her addiction to Meth. Each poem captures the story in vivid detail. Ellen Hopkins captures the turmoil and grip of addiction in a raw, authentic manner as she tells the story of a girl caught in the same kind of addiction her own daughter has battled. This is how we change MSNBC VelshiBannedBookClub: Crank with Ellen Hopkins There is not an ounce of. CRANK is the story of Kristina Snow and the summer that changes her life, when she goes to visit her father and meets the “monster”, Crystal Meth. Reading books like Crank is a safe way sometimes the only safe way - to explore.
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