Crank by Ellen Hopkins. This verse novel tells the story of Kristine
(who calls her alter-ego Bree), as she leaves her stable home with her mother
and spends several weeks with her father.
During the visit, enticed by, Kristina gradually becomes addicted to . What’s striking about the book, besides is
visceral and powerful descriptions of drug addiction, is its verse novel
form. The complexity of Hopkins verse,
including her repeated “mirror poems” simultaneously shows the dark side of
Kristina’s devolution and the . Like
many other verse novels now popular in YAL, this combined high form with
intense action and emotion, making it fast-paced, intensely readable and almost
impossible to put down.
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