http://lweingarden.edublogs.org A place to read and post reviews of books available in the Library Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:29:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 http://lweingarden.edublogs.org/2009/04/03/crank-by-ellen-hopkins/ http://lweingarden.edublogs.org/2009/04/03/crank-by-ellen-hopkins/#comments Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:47:53 +0000 lweingarden http://lweingarden.edublogs.org/?p=11   Seventeen-year-old Kristina Snow is introduced to crank on a trip to visit her wayward father. Caught up in a fast-paced, frightening, and unfamiliar world, she morphs into “Bree” after she “shakes hands with the monster.” Her fearless, risk-taking alter ego grows stronger, “convincing me to be someone I never dreamed I’d want to be.” When Kristina goes home, things don’t return to normal. Although she tries to reconnect with her mother and her former life as a good student, her drug use soon takes over….

]]> http://lweingarden.edublogs.org/2009/04/03/crank-by-ellen-hopkins/feed/ 0 http://lweingarden.edublogs.org/2009/04/03/glass-by-ellen-hopkins/ http://lweingarden.edublogs.org/2009/04/03/glass-by-ellen-hopkins/#comments Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:47:32 +0000 lweingarden http://lweingarden.edublogs.org/?p=14   Kristina Snow was a 17-year-old with high grades and a loving family. In Crank (S & S, 2004), one summer in California with a meth-addicted boyfriend destroys her life. Glass picks up a year later. She lives with her mother and works at a 7-11. Depressed about her post-baby figure…

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