No excuses. Just neglect.
But now that I'm back in full force, I'm going to be recommending BOOKS every day in December (until the 24th when I will go into shutdown mode). What better gift than a book for someone you love, your school library, your local library, your children's teachers, your husband, wife, best friend, postman, dog walker, babysitter ... than BOOKS?
So on this 30th Day of November, my first recommendation for you is:
FALLOUT is the third novel in Ellen Hopkins' CRANK trilogy. Heart breaking, bleak, and always honest, Ellen Hopkins concludes the trilogy about Kristina's crank addiction, adding new voices -- Kristina's children. She brilliantly shifts points of views between Kristina, Hunter, Autumn and Summer, taking us on a journey of not only Kristina's addiction but how her addiction has shaped her family. We follow the children and Kristina through anger, solitude, helplessness and even hope.
Ellen's verse novels have such stunning lines like Summer's, Train's like this generally wreck sooner or later. Or, one of my favorites, "Hunter Seth Haskins, her firstborn son. I've been choking that down for nineteen years."
What I most love in Ellen's work is that nothing is extra -- no fluff. Just beautiful images, heart-wrenching scenes that grab the reader and keep her/him turning pages until the end.
For who: mature teen readers
