Crank

Crank
 * Title of Book:

Name of Author: Ellen Hopkins

Copyright Year: 2004

Length of Book: 537 pages

Genre of Book: Realistic Fiction

Synopsis of Book:  This is a story about a monster. Not a dragon or a mythological beast, but a very real, very destructive monster--crystal meth--that takes hold of seventeen-year-old Kristina Snow and transforms her into her reckless alter-ego Bree. Based on her own daughter's addiction to crystal meth, Ellen Hopkins' novel-in-verse is a vivid, transfixing look into teenage drug use. Told in Kristina's voice, it provides a realistic portrayal of the tortured logic of an addict.

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__Student Review Section__

This book is about: -Kristina, the perfect daughter, quiet, never in any trouble, and a very gifted high school junior that gets straight A's. Then she goes to visit her father over the summer and meets a guy named Adam and they start to hang out a lot. Then he gets her started on crank and other drugs, even her father does drugs with her. Kristina is also called Bree, she's only Bree when she's with people that do the drugs with her. Adam also has a nickname Buddy. As she gets more involved with the monster it starts to take over her mind, her soul, and her life.

- junior in high school named Kristina also known as Bree. Straight A student, never in trouble. She meets the monster and fom there all of her dreams, plans for life have gone down the drain. Her boyfriend Adam also known as buddy, supplies the drugs and her father smokes it with her. meeting this stranger changed her life completely.

My favorite character in this book is Kristina because: -She is the main character and she also goes from being one of the straight A student to someone that gets addicted to drugs and ends up pregnant with the guy she thinks she's in love with.

-She started out as a normal straight A student to meeting a boy and her whole life style just changed, she gone through a lot and its amazing that she has survived.

I like this book because: -The main character in this book starts as a straight A student who get her life messed up with the monster. And she also got pregnant with the guy she thinks she loves but he truly doesn't love her.

-it starts out a normal teenage girl who is a junior in high school and her whole life goes down the drain and becomes addicted to a secret that she never that could happen to her.

You should read this book because: -It's very interesting because the main character Kristina a.k.a. Bree falls in love with Adam a.k.a. budy and ends up getting messed up in some drugs with him and also ends up pregnant.

-It's telling you about a woman who was once a teenager and had her life on track, meets a guy who she in love with and one tryout become an addiction to her life long story. She looks back n life wondering what she was thinking and how much pf a better life she could of have if she hadn't came across drugs. Drugs were her weakness. You read this book and it will show you that.

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[|Crank Book Talk By: Ashley Hopple & Tosha Gravel]

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