Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love in this #1 New York Times bestselling novel from Ellen Hopkins. When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival. Five teenagers from different parts of the country. Three girls. Two guys. Four straight. One gay. Some rich. Some poor. Some from great families. Some with no one at all. All living their lives as best they can, but all searching.for freedom, safety, community, family, love. What they don't expect, though, is all that can happen when those powerful little words I love you are said for all the wrong reasons. Five moving stories remain separate at first, then interweave to tell a larger, powerful story -- a story about making choices, taking leaps of faith, falling down, and growing up. A story about kids figuring out what sex and love are all about, at all costs, while asking themselves, Can I ever feel okay about myself? A brilliant achievement from New York Times best-selling author Ellen Hopkins -- who has been called the bestselling living poet in the country by mediabistro.com -- Tricks is a book that turns you on and repels you at the same time. Just like so much of life.
Ellen Hopkins is a former journalist and the award-winning author of twenty nonfiction books for young readers, fourteen bestselling young-adult novels (including The Crank Trilogy, Burned, Impulse, and Tricks series), and four novels for adult readers. With this book, she is honored to enter the realm of middle-grade fiction. Ellen lives with her extended family, one brilliant German shepherd, a retired rescue cat, and two ponds (not pounds) of koi in the eastern shadow of the Northern Nevada Sierra.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781416950080 |
| ISBN 10 | 1416950087 |
| Title | Tricks |
| Author | Ellen Hopkins |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Year published | 2011-12-06 |
| Number of pages | 627 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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