All this week I have been reading Crank by Ellen Hopkins, for Diamond's reading discussion. So far, it is about a girl named Kristina but she has another side she named Bree. Kristina was an outstanding student, a great singer, and had great friends. This gave her so much to lose. When she went to stay with her drug-addict dad, she became one herself. She did loose it all.
What I didn't know about Crank before I started reading it is that it is all written in a way that the pictures portray a shape or a mood. For example, if the mood in the book was choppy and tense the words would be scattered. I have noticed that someone who truly loves and cares about her will call her Kristina, but someone who just wants to crank or use her will call her Bree. It really is like she has two different lives, with different people and places. I haven't finished the book but I think that it is going to take a big mess up on her part for her to get her life back on track.
This sounds like a really good book to read. It's probably going to be my next read for the year since a lot of people recommended it.
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