2010
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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Glass, Burned, Identical, Impulse, Crank. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Glass is the second novel in the verse novel series Crank by Ellen Hopkins, published in August 2007. The hardcover edition was first released, and the softcover was released on April 7, 2009. The third book of the series, Fallout, is due to be published in 2010. It is to be told from Kristina's son Hunter's point of view. 'Glass' was inspiration for the hardstyle track "Crank." Crank. Glass. Ice. Crystal. Whatever you call it, it's all the same: a monster. And once it's got hold of you, this monster will never let you go. The sequel to Crank, this is the continuing story of Kristina and her descent back into hell. Told in verse, it's a harrowing and disturbing look at addiction and the damage that it inflicts. Kristina thinks that now she has a baby to care for and love, she can let go of the old addiction. But she finds herself searching for Robyn, her old contact for the "street crank." While over at her house she meets a boy named Trey and starts to crave for people to look like they want or need her. Once she gets home, she begins to work at a 7-Eleven to get the money to buy more crank. The manager there is a porn dealer and offers her a job as a prostitute, but she declines. After learning that her father is coming to her mother's home to be at the christening of her new baby, Hunter Seth, she begs her mother to let him come and she agrees, on the condition that Kristina has to be the one to tell her older sister. Once her father comes, he takes her to casinos for her eighteenth birthday party and they snort some lines while there. This causes Kristina to be almost late for Hunter's christening, but she manages to make it on time. Mea...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2177752
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