So whether you're craving a cautionary tale or looking to rebel, this book just might cure what ails you. Still, that doesn't mean everyone's a fan-the book is also frequently banned for its raw, honest portrayal of teen sex and drug use. The book has spoken to thousands of young, struggling readers, won numerous awards, and consistently appears on recommended reading lists for high school students. Feeling her daughter's story could be valuable to other teens, Hopkins began writing Crank, followed by two additional books about Kristina, Glass and Fallout.ĭespite its dark roots in reality, Crank is an example of a bad experience transforming into something positive that helps others. Like Kristina, her daughter's addiction began with a visit meant to reconnect her with her father, but instead she came home a completely different person, her family powerless to stop her downward slide.
A lot of Crank is actually based on the true story of Hopkins's own daughter's struggle with addiction to crystal meth.
If this all sounds too bad to be true, though, it isn't. Whoa-talk about a loss of innocence in hyper-drive. Kristina finds herself in all kinds of situations she never could have predicted, from losing her virginity in exchange for drugs to dating two pretty shady characters at once to becoming a crank dealer herself. She starts out in charge, but before she knows it, meth is running the show.Īll it takes is a court-ordered visit to see her estranged father to send her down a road that forever alters the course of her life. In the course of one summer, Kristina goes from straight-laced honors student to slave to crystal meth, a.k.a. When it comes to meth addiction, it's often not as simple as quitting or staying the course-just ask Kristina Snow, protagonist of Ellen Hopkins's 2004 novel Crank. But what if your time suck wasn't so innocent, and instead had the power to destroy your finances, your mind, and even your future? Would you be strong enough to kick the habit? Or would you allow it to destroy you? Whether it's Candy Crush Saga, Star Trek reruns, or checking Instagram to see what your friends are doing, we all have guilty pleasures that eat into our time.
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