Crank

     Crank, by Ellen Hopkins is about a teen's struggle with life. The main character, Kristina Snow, has always had a great childhood, parents, friends,and grades. But all it takes is one trip to visit her dad for the summer, and Kristina is a new person. On the trip to her dad's house Kristina meets a boy named Adam. To her, Adam is the most beautiful man she has ever seen in her life, and instantly she is attracted to him. But the only problem is Adam is a meth user just like her dad. Kristina didn't want a boy like her father, no matter how much she loved him. After a while of thinking it over, Kristina decidied to go out with Adam, to love him as much as she loved her father, and to follow in his foot steps as a crank user.

     All it takes is one night alone with Adam, and with one small toke of crank and Kristina is hooked, and for nothing can't let go. She no longer spends time with her drunk-meth user father and his come and go women. Every night is spent with Adam, in the back closet of the blowing alley. Two months later, when Kristina has to go back home to her mother, she was put to the test of her commitment and love to Adam. She wants to go home more than anything, and all the way home she kept her mind taxed with questions she was unable to answer herself. Will her parents see the meth in her eyes? WIll they love her the same as when she left? Will they even care?

     Even though Kristina already knows about the histry of her parents and how their life was before she was born, but she still wonders what terrible things lie bewteen her and her parents. Before Kristina was born her mother and father were nothing but two people trying to get through life by using crank. But after a few months with no change her mother wanted more than just meth. She wanted a family to take care of, something worth living for. All her father wanted was meth and even more women. When her mother left her dad she stopped using meth, moved, re-married, and started the family she she has wanted all along. Even up to now, her father still uses meth and still sleeps around with women.

     Is her mother's influence on Kristina enough to convince her to change her ways? What lies ahead of Kristina and what is to come of her? To find out, read the second book of Crank by Ellen Hopkins Glass , and see what her life will become after she came back home.