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Tricks

by Ellen Hopkins

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Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love.
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    Glimpse by Carol Lynch Williams (khuggard)
    khuggard: Though Tricks is grittier and more explicit than Glimpse, these are both novels in verse about teens facing the unthinkable.
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I absolutely love Ellen Hopkins. She has become my favorite author. She has such a fascinating way of writing. Like the majority of her books, I definitely give it a 5 star review. I was hardly able to out the book down! ( )
  paulneocube | Mar 3, 2024 |
Poetry
  BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |
Ive been waiting to reread this book ever since I found out there's a sequel coming in November, and I have to say I loved this book even more the second time around. ( )
  emilytimco | Nov 12, 2022 |
Tricks is another prose poetry novel sure to be a hit with Ellen Hopkins fans. Rather than telling one story, it follows five teens on their individual odysseys in a downward spiral into prostitution where they all wind up in Las Vegas and their stories converge in a way. They all come from different places and circumstances: Ginger’s mother is a prostitute but they live with her grandmother; Seth lives on a farm; Whitney comes from a privileged background. Each individual’s downfall occurs for different reasons from poor choices to family problesm: Seth is thrown out because he is gay; Eden is thrown out because she falls in love with someone who is not born again; Cody falls deeply in debt from gambling. Each story unfolds inexorably until they all hit their own rock bottom. The stories are dark, bleak, often violent, and graphic. Given the subject matter, sex and drug use abound. ( )
  Dairyqueen84 | Mar 15, 2022 |
Ive been waiting to reread this book ever since I found out there's a sequel coming in November, and I have to say I loved this book even more the second time around. ( )
  seraynea | Jun 29, 2020 |
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A Poem by Eden Streit
Eyes Tell Stories
But do they know how
to craft fiction? Do
They know how to spin                          Lies?

His eyes swear forever,
flatter with vows of only 
me. But are they empty                          Promises?

I stare into his eyes, as
into a crystal ball, but 
I cannot find forever,                           only

movies of yesterday,
a sketchbook of today,
dreams of a shared                                    tomorrow.

His eyes whisper secrets.
But are they truths or fairy tales?
I wonder if even he                                  knows.
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Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love.

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Five teenagers from different parts of the country. Three girls. Two guys. Four straight. One gay. Some rich. Some poor. Some from great families. Some with no one at all. All living their lives as best they can, but all searching...for freedom, safety, community, family, love. 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.

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. 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?"
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