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Grade 8 Up–Seventeen-year-old Kristina Snow is introduced to crank on a trip to visit her wayward father. Caught up in a fast-paced, frightening, and unfamiliar world, she morphs into "Bree" after she "shakes hands with the monster." Her fearless, risk-taking alter ego grows stronger, "convincing me to be someone I never dreamed I'd want to be." When Kristina goes home, things don't return to normal. Although she tries to reconnect with her mother and her former life as a good student, her drug use soon takes over, leaving her "starving for speed" and for boys who will soon leave her scarred and pregnant. Hopkins writes in free-verse poems that paint painfully sharp images of Kristina/Bree and those around her, detailing how powerful the "monster" can be. The poems are masterpieces of word, shape, and pacing, compelling readers on to the next chapter in Kristina's spiraling world. This is a topical page-turner and a stunning portrayal of a teen's loss of direction and realistically uncertain future.–Sharon Korbeck, Waupaca Area Public Library, WI
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Gr. 8-12. Like the teenage crack user in the film Traffic, the young addict in this wrenching, cautionary debut lives in a comfortable, advantaged home with caring parents. Sixteen-year-old Kristina first tries crank, or crystal meth, while visiting her long-estranged father, a crank junkie. Bree is Kristina's imagined, bolder self, who flirts outrageously and gets high without remorse, and when Kristina returns to her mother and family in Reno, it's Bree who makes connections with edgy guys and other crank users that escalate into full-blown addiction and heartrending consequences. Hopkins tells Kristina's story in experimental verse. A few overreaching lines seem out of step with character voices: a boyfriend, for example, tells Kristina that he'd like to wait for sex until she is "free from dreams of yesterday." But Hopkins uses the spare, fragmented style to powerful effect, heightening the emotional impact of dialogues, inner monologues, and devastating scenes, including a brutal date rape. Readers won't soon forget smart, sardonic Kristina; her chilling descent into addiction; or the author's note, which references her own daughter's struggle with "the monster." Gillian Engberg
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hidden messages everywhere.,
By christine (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Crank (Paperback)
This book holds the key of the biggest mystery, what drugs can do to YOU. Crank(crystal meth), is the bigest adictation of a girl who flirts with death. A sad yet harmonious story written in verses, made me hold onto it until i finished it, which meant many many hours. Everyword we read, there contains a secret message that awes our lack of intellgence in that area. Beautiful as the words go, strange as the mood seems, this is a book that CANNOT be left alone. The dark simplicity of it will make everyone cry in displease of having it end. I loved this story. This is everything I ever wanted to read. the best teen novel I've ever read.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very good book,
By Parakeet (Vancouver BC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Crank (Paperback)
When I got this book and opened the first page I was shocked to see that it was written as a poem. I worried that I wouldn't like this style of writing but decided to give it a try. I sure am glad I did as I was unable to put this book down once I started reading.The story is nothing new...a girl gets hooked on drugs and her life takes a downward spiral..ending with the birth of a baby. It is the way it is written, however, that makes this a magical book. I highly recommend this book as long as you have the time to finish it once you start it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Amazing,
By Mercy (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Crank (Paperback)
Frankly, the 'girl-addicted-to-hardcore-drugs-needs-her-desperate-struggle' is a really popular and over-done theme in teen contemporary books right now, but Crank was different. It flirts with this poetic version that makes everything much more interesting. Truthfully, I read this book in class and missed a very important lesson it was that good. It's also a book I feel I will read again in the future, definetly worth buying.
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