Crank- Book Review

Kristina has always been a good girl, until the summer before her senior year. While visiting her dad that she hasn't seen in ages Kristina starts to take on a new personality of Bree. Bree is everything that Kristina's not she's flirty, wild, bold. Bree soon get caught up in a world of parties and romance and gets addicted to crystal meth otherwise know as Crank. Even after she returns home with her family Bree/Kristina continues her addiction. Bree's addiction gets up to the point where she does crazy thing and puts herself in dangerous situations to get her Crank. 

Author Ellen Hopkins’ use of free verse poetry pushes the plot forward, creating a sense of urgency that mirrors Kristina’s growing need for crank. Ellen Hopkins also makes a point to write about the effects of meth and what a person doing meth feels like when they've hit HIGH and when they've hit low. 

This 500 page read only took me two days to read because of the fun free verse styling and attention grabbing plot. I would definitely give this book five stars. ★★★★★

I Wanna Be Apart Of Something I Don't Know

This lyric from the Miley Cyrus song, Can't Be Tamed may seem pretty innocent. But to many teens this is very real. Many teens want to be apart of smoking or doing drugs but they really don't know what there getting themselves into. Every day teens are faced with decisions, such as drugs, alcohol and choosing whether or not to take part in these harmful activities.

Many teens think, "whatever if I drink once it won't really matter."  But the truth is, scientists have done research and found that if teens drink while still under the legal drinking age, their drinking will cause horrible brain effects. Some possible brain effects are a greater difficulty memorizing. When alcohol is abused, it becomes a depressant, in which it slows down the central nervous system. So, if your an athletic person, drinking isn't the best option considering that for most sports you need a lot a balance, good vision and fast reaction time. If you drink, your mind will begin to change and you'll  have no control of your vision, hearing and emotions.

So what if your not a jock? Could drinking really do much harm? YES! If you have a passion for writing and you drink underage, you won't be able to think straight and you'll be completely confused while trying to do thing you love. It won't help you in the long-run either. Drinking can kill all your hopes and dream. Literally.


Smoking isn't much better either. Teens seem to enjoy smoking better than drinking because the effects can't be noticed physically, unlike drinking alcohol wear you can tell if someone's tipsy. The disturbing, but true fact proved by scientist say about 8O% of adult smokers started smoking as teenagers.


The biggest problem teens don't realize is how much impact smoking has on their insides. Lung Cancer is smoking's best friend. They go hand in hand. If lung cancer's not enough you can get mouth, heart, brain, skin, pancreas, stomach and about 100 more cancers from this nasty habit.


To any teen who has friends that smoke, think about what you'll tell your friends the next time they light up.