Ellen Hopkins writes young adult and adult fiction in verse, often about addiction, abuse, mental health and teenagers making choices with serious consequences. Crank follows Kristina, a teenager whose involvement with methamphetamine changes her behaviour, relationships and sense of identity, beginning a trilogy that continues through Glass and Fallout. Impulse brings together three teenagers in a psychiatric treatment centre after suicide attempts, while Identical centres on twin sisters living inside an abusive family. Hopkins uses short free-verse sections, multiple voices and shifting page layouts to create fast reading despite difficult subject matter. Crank is the central starting point for Hopkins's verse novels, where addiction, fragmented voice and page layout work together to create a reading experience very different from conventional YA prose. Read more Less
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