Crank (Crank #1)

Reader reviewed by Ashley

One summer Kristina goes to visit her father. When she comes back, she's no longer Kristina. She's Bree; and Bree is addicted to the monster. Bree is the polar opposite of Kristina, she has confidence, and can get anything she wants.

I love, love, loved this book! It is without a doubt high up on my favorites list. I'd recommend this book to anyone. It also allows you a real look at the effects of meth.

Reader reviewed by cici

this was a disturbingly awesome book. i love how the poems just capture you from page one and never like go. it was a pleasure to read this book, i just couldnt put it down. she writes some thick books i started reading it on a friday and was done with it by saturday morining thats how amazing this book really is. praise for ellen hopkins!!!!!

Reader reviewed by Alex11181992

An unbelieve story that only ellen hopkins could come up with.
A hard felt story of a young teenage girl and her new trouble.
Going to her dads house was a mistake from the start
Read and learn all the troubles of a girl who is lead into the life of drugs
Raped and left with a baby she learns to turn her life around
A book that i will read until i die
unbelieve a most read story for every1

I just got addicted to Crank. That's ironic, even though I was just talking about the book. But I seriously love this book. It's hard to put down.

Reader reviewed by selina c

I have never been more shocked or thrilled to read such a mind blowing story.  The two girl persona in Crank and the ride downhill from honor roll to being a teenage mother addicted to drugs makes you realize how far the fall really is.  Ellen Hopkins is a poetic genious, creating such a masterpiece of a story out of poems that are hard to swallow and unbelievably visual for words.  Crank really left a mark on me after i read it, but it was also inspiring and showed the raw truth of drug abuse and what it does to you, both physically and mentally.  A great read, but not recommended for those sensitive to certain materials.

Reader reviewed by becca

The perfect example for a teen of what not to do. It tells how drugs can ruin a young girls life and change it forever. This has inspired me to never even think about doing drugs for fear of my life going bad. I love the book and think every teen out there should read it

Reader reviewed by Kayla

I really enjoyed this book. I think it really shows teenagers or anybody almost the risks of not doing drugs and how well peer pressure worked in this girls life to make her do crank. I can't wait to read the book Burned now since I have read this book.

Reader reviewed by erica

Crank, by Ellen Hopkins, is not only a phenomenal book, but it is incredibly moving and dramatic. Kristina/Bree's experiences with drugs and being around people she never would have before is an intense storyline, and the author's style really reaches out to the reader and makes them feel apart of Kristina's life.

As soon as Kristina meets Adam her inner risk-taking side breaks through, and she is known from then on to people she meets as 'Bree', and Bree is the polar opposite of Kristina. Kristina was an average girl with an average life, who played by the rules, was a little shy, and certainly not one to take deadly chances. Bree is the firey side of Kristina that is very spontaneous and just about goes searching for danger, never thinking twice about decisions.

Some may deny that Kristina's experiences are common among teens today, but the same choices she makes appear in many, many incidences for girls like her at all times. It may not prevent someone from experimenting with crank, but it definately tells you a lot about the effects it has on the person themselves, as well as their friends and family, and the gripping addiction that can occur from its use.

From the first line Kristina snorts to her ending up pregnant and addicted to "The Monster", you will not be able to put this book down.

Reader reviewed by Sierra Goodman

This was a great amazing heart wrenching book! It shows the strugles drugs can bring upon u or any monster for that matter. Kristina story happens to many everyday and i think everyone has a double identity we just dont realize it. I would recommend this book to any teen going through struggles or every teen because everyone has struggles sometime in life. I havent finished the sequal yet but it is quite amazing as well (:

Reader reviewed by vampreviews

ok warning to all good kids!!!!! i got in oober truble for reading this book! and now my mom checks on what im reading, and i cant read the sequil. so make sure its o.k. before you read this book!(im not kidding!) this book is about a girl who goes to her dads for a few weeks (she hasn't seen her dad in years) and gets webbed into all kinds of drugs to impress a boy who doesn't love her. and when she goes home shes all crazy. so this books basicly on her strugles, i know it sounds whiny but its good