{"id":1723,"date":"2019-03-07T10:36:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T15:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=1723"},"modified":"2019-02-12T15:39:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T20:39:52","slug":"review-crank-by-ellen-hopkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=1723","title":{"rendered":"Review: Crank by Ellen Hopkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/4c5e141d0ccfe8670b6cfc2a12617414.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1724\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/4c5e141d0ccfe8670b6cfc2a12617414-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/4c5e141d0ccfe8670b6cfc2a12617414-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/4c5e141d0ccfe8670b6cfc2a12617414-56x74.jpg 56w, https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/4c5e141d0ccfe8670b6cfc2a12617414.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>McElderry; Original edition, 2004<br \/>\nISBN-13: 978-0689865190<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Available: New and\u00a0 Used<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"internal-source-marker_0.-1048445899\">Crank\u00a0is Ellen Hopkins&#8217; controversial, and sorely needed, verse novel. Kristina Snow\u2019s life changes forever when her father and the boy she&#8217;s crushing introduce her to meth. Unlike\u00a0Impulse, which is raw and shredding in its emotion,\u00a0Crank is almost cold at times, brutally showing a girl on the edge of being a woman, who should have the kind of life that discourages drug use, choosing to ride with the monster time after time. Likewise, the people in her life who should be able to step in, fail, leaving Kristina alone to fight a beast that defeats most adults.<\/p>\n<p>Crank\u00a0is a difficult book to handle, but it&#8217;s far closer to reality than any drug awareness program I went through in school. Hopkins\u2019 books are strongly positioned to be of great value as fiction, as poetry, and for their educational value, as they boldly strip away pretenses and sensitivities to show addiction as the cruel master it is. Highly recommended for public collections as well as recommended reading material for those whose lives have been scarred by the real life monsters on our streets.<\/p>\n<p>Contains: sex, drug use, rape, language<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McElderry; Original edition, 2004 ISBN-13: 978-0689865190 Available: New and\u00a0 Used Crank\u00a0is Ellen Hopkins&#8217; controversial, and sorely needed, verse novel. Kristina Snow\u2019s life changes forever when her father and the boy she&#8217;s crushing introduce her to meth. Unlike\u00a0Impulse, which is raw and shredding in its emotion,\u00a0Crank is almost cold at times, brutally showing a girl on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[63,18,119,309,20],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-1723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banned-books","category-book-reviews","category-horror","category-poetry","category-ya-books","tag-ellen-hopkins"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Eu9f-rN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1725,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions\/1725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}