This drug addiction can lead to decisions, such as Kristina's decision to date Brendan, which will affect the teens for the rest of their lives. Hopkins shows that even the most unlikely teenagers are susceptible to drug abuse and addiction. Bree flirts with boys, wants to experience the wild side of life, and takes drugs.Īuthor Ellen Hopkins tells a powerful story about how easy it is to get addicted to drugs and how difficult it is to break away from these drugs. While Kristina is a traditional good girl, Bree throws caution to the wind. Kristina describes Bree as the essence of herself. It is during this time that Kristina gives birth to a new personality whom she will come to call Bree. It is during this time of emotional distress and upheaval that Kristina meets her first boyfriend, Adam. Instead, he is distant and uninterested in Kristina. She is deeply disappointed when she learns that her father is not the prince that she imagined him to be. Kristina is already feeling misplaced in her family by her stepfather and younger brother. Kristina begins taking drugs during a trip to visit her birth father in Albuquerque. Although she realizes how much destruction the drugs have brought into her life, Kristina still is unable to break her addiction.

At one of her lowest points, Kristina learns that she is pregnant by a man who raped her. The novel follows Kristina's downward spiral as she attempts to feed her addiction and deal with the consequences of the bad decisions that she has made. Crank by Ellen Hopkins tells the story of a teenage girl who becomes addicted to crank, a form of methamphetamine.

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