β Scribed by Hopkins, Ellen
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
βWhen all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.β
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 donβt expect, though, is all that can happen when those powerful little words, βI love you,β are said for all the wrong reasons. These are five moving stories that remain separate at first, then weave together to tell a larger, more powerful storyβa story about making choices, taking leaps of faith, falling down, and growing up. And figuring out what sex and love are all about.
TRICKS is informed and inspired by living near Las Vegasβa big teen prostitution sceneβand by the fact that teen prostitution is not exclusively the result of kids running away from abuse. Kids from βbetterβ families are selling themselves for hefty sums in order to finance addictions or even just to buy jewelry or clothing. In some cases, parents prostitute their children for the same reason. So what happens to the kids who are asking themselves, and asking us, βCan I ever feel OK about myself?β
Highly charged, TRICKS is a gripping experience that turns you on and repels you at the same time.
Grade 9 UpβFive teens desperately seek to find their way through the darkness in Hopkins's latest epic novel in verse. Eden flees an evangelical household; Cody blocks out a family illness with gambling and sex; Whitney gives up her body in exchange for the love she finds so elusive; Seth struggles to define himself as a homosexual; and Ginger comes to terms with an awful truth about her neglectful mother. Burden after burden piles on the teens' shoulders until they resort to the unthinkable in order to survive. As they near rock bottom, their narratives begin to intersect. It is only when their paths converge that a glimmer of redemption appears out of the hopelessness. From the punch delivered by the title, to the teens' raw voices, to the visual impact of the free verse, Hopkins once again produces a graphic, intense tale that will speak to mature teens.β Jill Heritage Maza, Greenwich High School, CT END
Ellen Hopkins is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Crank , Burned , Impulse , Glass , Identical , Tricks , Fallout , and Perfect , as well as the adult novels Triangles and Collateral. She lives with her family in Carson City, Nevada, where she has founded Ventana Sierra, a nonprofit youth housing and resource initiative. Visit her at EllenHopkins.com and on Facebook, and follow her on Twitter at @EllenHopkinsYA. For more information on Ventana Sierra, go to VentanaSierra.org.
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