![]() ![]() Update : If you liked WRECKED by Heather Henson, add CRANK to your reading list. After her first experience with meth, Kristina attempts to find her way home alone from the bowling alley. As such, the book is laced with profanity including f, btard, h, dn, bch and s.Other crude references are pee, pissed, fart and screwed.God’s name is used several times with oh and oh my. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here, and escape lies just past that snowy window, cool and crisp as the February air. Crank portrays meth addiction and its subculture. 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. Quotes from Crank Ellen Hopkins 537 pages Rating: (111.3K votes) Get the book I hate this feeling. ![]() 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. This is the first novel in verse that I’ve ever read. 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. : Crank (Spanish Edition) (9786074006452) by Hopkins, Ellen and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at. ![]() 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. 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. ![]()
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