Ellen Hopkins
1) Crank
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Seventeen-year-old Kristina is introduced to crystal meth on a visit to her wayward father, and her drug use soon takes over, leaving her "starving for speed" and for boys who will leave her scarred and pregnant.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows six teenagers as they are brought into close contact over the course of one tense week, in a town with political and personal tensions that build until one fires a fatal gunshot.
3) Glass
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a powerful sequel to Crank, Kristina is determined to manage her addiction to crack in order to keep her newborn child, but when she is unable to manage her use of the drug and the pull becomes too strong, her greatest fears are quickly realized.
5) Rumble
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Matt's atheism is tested when, after a horrific accident of his own making that plunges him into a dark, quiet place, he hears a voice that calls everything he has ever disbelieved into question.
6) Burned
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.
7) Perfect
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Northern Nevada teenagers Cara, Kendra, Sean, and Andre, tell in their own voices of their very different paths toward perfection and how their goals change when tragedy strikes.
8) Fallout
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Written in free verse, explores how three teenagers try to cope with the consequences of their mother's addiction to crystal meth and its effects on their lives.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tara is gorgeous, affluent, and forty. She lives in an impeccably restored Russian Hill mansion in San Francisco. Once a widow, twice divorced, she's a woman with a past she prefers keeping to herself. Enter Cavin Lattimore. He's handsome, kind, charming, and the surgeon assigned to Tara following a ski accident in Lake Tahoe. In the weeks it takes her to recover, Cavin sweeps her off her feet and their relationship blossoms into something Tara had...
10) Impulse
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Three teens who meet at Reno, Nevada's Aspen Springs mental hospital after each has attempted suicide connect with each other in a way they never have with their parents or anyone else in their lives.
11) Identical
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart.
12) Tricks
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love.
13) Smoke
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the death of her abusive father and loss of her beloved Ethan and their unborn child, Pattyn runs away, desperately seeking peace, as her younger sister, a sophomore in high school, also tries to put the pieces of her life back together.
14) Tilt
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three teens, connected by their parents' bad choices, tell in their own voices of their lives and loves as Shane finds his first boyfriend, Mikayla discovers that love can be pushed too far, and Harley loses herself in her quest for new experiences.
15) Collateral
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of the novel Triangles a gorgeous tale about a woman torn between her love for a dedicated Marine and her resentment of the war that is tearing their lives apart.
The last thing Ashley ever expected was to end up a military wife. But Cole doesn't match her stereotype of the aggressive Marine. He's passionate and romantic, and their relationship evolves into a deeply felt, sexually charged love affair that...
16) Traffick
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Five teenagers struggle to find their way out of prostitution.
18) Grim
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Inspired by classic fairy tales, but with a dark and sinister twist, Grim contains short stories from some of the best voices in young adult literature today: Ellen Hopkins Amanda Hocking Julie Kagawa Claudia Gray Rachel Hawkins Kimberly Derting Myra McEntire Malinda Lo Sarah Rees-Brennan Jackson Pearce Christine Johnson Jeri Smith Ready Shaun David Hutchinson Saundra Mitchell Sonia Gensler Tessa Gratton Jon Skrovron