There is a song from an obscure 90s movie called Angus, that I cant get out. But in the end, readers will be amazed at how quickly they work their way through this thick book-and by how much they learn about crystal meth and the toll it takes, both on addicts and their families. Glass by Ellen Hopkins: Its like glass, when we break. She lives with her family in Carson City, Nevada, where she has founded Ventana Sierra, a nonprofit youth housing and resource initiative. She again experiments with form, sometimes writing two parallel poems that can be read together or separately (sometimes these experiments seem a bit cloying, as in “Santa Is Coming,” a concrete poem in the shape of a Christmas tree). Ellen Hopkins is the 1 New York Times bestselling author of numerous young adult novels, as well as the adult novels such as Triangles, Collateral, and Love Lies Beneath.

The author expertly relays both plot points and drug facts through verse, painting Kristina’s self-narrated self-destruction through clean verses (“My face is hollow-/cheeked, spiced with sores”). Cash and carry”) and eventually even robs her mother’s house with her equally addicted boyfriend. Like the previous books in the series, 'Glass' is told in free-verse poetry, which allows Ellen Hopkins to convey Kristina's thoughts and feelings in a powerful and immediate way. It was published in 2007 and continues the story of Kristina, a teenage girl who is struggling to overcome her addiction to crystal meth.

She gets kicked out of her house after her baby gets hurt on her watch, starts dealing for the Mexican Mafia (“No problem. Glass Book review by Kate Pavao, Common Sense Media Common Sense says age 16+ Intense poems of meth addiction read with teens. 4/5: 'Glass' is the third novel in the 'Crank' series by Ellen Hopkins. maybe 90 percent pure,” Kristina quickly loses control again. Getting/ out of this deep well/ of monotony I’m/ slowly drowning in.” When her former connection turns her on to “glass”: “Mexican meth, as/ good as it comes. Kristina now lives in her mother’s Reno home with her baby, but constantly dreams of “getting/ high. Hopkins’s hard-hitting free-verse novel, a sequel, picks up where Crankleft off.

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