She lives with her family in Carson City, Nevada, where she has founded Ventana Sierra, a nonprofit youth housing and resource initiative. Product dimensions - 5.4' W x 8.2' H x 1. Ellen Hopkins is the 1 New York Times bestselling author of fourteen young adult novels, as well as the adult novels Triangles, Collateral, and Love Lies Beneath.A story about kids figuring out what sex and love are all about, at all costs, while asking themselves, 'Can I ever feel okay about myself?' A brilliant achievement from New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins- who has been called 'the bestselling living poet in the country' by - Tricks is a book that turns you on and repels you at the same time. Five moving stories remain separate at first, then interweave to tell a larger, powerful story- a story about making choices, taking leaps of faith, falling down, and growing up. Rather than telling one story, it follows five teens on their individual. What they don't expect, though, is all that can happen when those powerful little words 'I love you' are said for all the wrong reasons. Tricks is another prose poetry novel sure to be a hit with Ellen Hopkins fans. All living their lives as best they can, but all searching.for freedom, safety, community, family, love. With a training technique commonly used to teach dogs to sit and stay, Johns Hopkins University computer scientists showed a robot how to teach itself several new tricks, including stacking. Five teenagers from different parts of the country. The novel revolves around five teenagers who are drawn. Five teenagers from different parts of the country. Ellen Hopkins novel Tricks is a social commentary on dangerous teen behavior and child prostitution. When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival. 4.29 37,158 Ratings 1,885 Reviews published 2009 18 editions. It follows five young teenagers as they explore sex for the first time and their eventual.

Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love in this #1 New York Times bestselling novel from Ellen Hopkins. Tricks is, in true Ellen Hopkins fashion, a tough book to read.

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