Kay, Alex
Crank
Simon & Schuster Inc, New York, NY
Borders
Genre: Young Adult, Fiction
$6.99
Kristina is 17 and quiet when she goes to visit her father for a few weeks in the summer. She meets Adam in her father's apartment building and quickly becomes involved with him - and with the drug crystal meth, which she calls "the monster." Kristina quickly becomes addicted to both meth and Adam and returns home brokenhearted and high.
Crank is a very powerful book. It's written in free verse from Kristina's point of view, and the author knows what she's talking about as Kristina is based on her own daughter's experience of addiction. This book really shows how powerful addiction to a drug that strong can be and how desperate people who are addicted to it are.
