Flirtin' with the Monster: Your Favorite Authors on Ellen Hopkins's Crank and Glass

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Flirtin' with the Monster pulls back the curtain on Ellen Hopkins' smart and daring books Crank and Glass and explores their appeal and originality through a compilation of serious yet fascinating essays. In addition to fan essays, Flirtin' with the Monster takes a deeper look at the issues behind Hopkins' bestselling novels by allowing the real teenage girl who inspired the meth-addicted main character to contribute an essay. Ellen Hopkins doesn't shy away from serious yet crucial teen topics, and whether it's ...
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Flirtin' With the Monster: Your Favorite Authors on Ellen Hopkins' Crank and Glass

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Overview

Flirtin' with the Monster pulls back the curtain on Ellen Hopkins' smart and daring books Crank and Glass and explores their appeal and originality through a compilation of serious yet fascinating essays. In addition to fan essays, Flirtin' with the Monster takes a deeper look at the issues behind Hopkins' bestselling novels by allowing the real teenage girl who inspired the meth-addicted main character to contribute an essay. Ellen Hopkins doesn't shy away from serious yet crucial teen topics, and whether it's homosexuality or suicide, she paints a very real picture of the issue. With an introduction by Ellen herself, Flirtin' with the Monster is the definite voice on what makes Crank and Glass page-turners for teens everywhere. Flirtin' with the Monster has essays written by Susan Hart Lindquist, Lynda Sandoval, Nicole Burnham, Terri Clark, Gail Giles, Cinda Chima, Megan Kelley Hall, Micol Ostow, Mary Bryan and John Tatro.
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This uneven collection of essays about Ellen Hopkins's Crank (2004) and Glass (2007) combines outside analysis with firsthand perspectives from the people behind the characters. The free-verse novels describe "Kristina's" (the novelized name of Hopkins' real daughter) spiral downwards into methamphetamine addiction. Here, a treatment expert and a judge with experience sentencing meth addicts provide frank, disquieting chapters about the brain damage that makes meth such a "monster." Several authors, conversely, contribute slapdash social analysis and weak literary criticism plagued by unfounded conclusions, straw men and an odd ignorance of young-adult literature (lauding Hopkins as unusual for addressing dark topics, for instance). A grating absence of documentation discourages intertextual follow-up: Crank and Glass quotations lack page numbers (and often line breaks, which kills the razor-sharp verse), while other sources lack traceable references. However, fans will flock to the essays by the real "Kristina," her stepfather, her sister and the son she bore while on meth (he's now 11). Hardly a model for budding literary critics, but the stronger chapters and 11 new verses from Hopkins will entice-and appropriately frighten-readers. (Nonfiction. YA)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781933771670
  • Publisher: BenBella Books, Inc.
  • Publication date: 5/12/2009
  • Pages: 224
  • Sales rank: 84777
  • Age range: 14 - 18 Years
  • Product dimensions: 6.03 (w) x 9.11 (h) x 0.53 (d)

Meet the Author

Ellen Hopkins
Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins has been writing poetry for many years. Her first novel, Crank, also written in verse, met with critical acclaim. She lives with her husband and son in Carson City, Nevada.

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  • Posted Wed May 06 00:00:00 EDT 2009

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    Reviewed by Angie Fisher for TeensReadToo.com

    Knowledge is power, and although Ellen Hopkins no doubt would have preferred to not have lived the nightmare of her daughter's dance with Meth and other drugs, she has chosen to share her experiences with others. We should be grateful she has.

    FLIRTIN' WITH THE MONSTER is Ellen's non-fiction, no-nonsense account of why she chose to tell her story to the world, her choice of the fiction genre verses memoir, and her solid belief that teenagers deserve to read about real issues that affect their very real lives. We can't protect our teenagers forever, and if one adolescent can read about someone else's mistakes, and be frightened into not ever making the choices Ellen's daughter made, then she will have paved her way to heaven.

    In this title, Ellen has joined forces with numerous people, and included letters written by her own family, "Kristina" included, to discuss the Monster, her writing, and the impact her two best-selling novels have had on their own and others lives. The book is testimony to the influence that a story such as this can have on a person, young or old, when the choice to try a drug that first time presents itself. And it will present itself.

    As Niki Burnham so eloquently puts it in the opening chapter on role models our kids are reading about, or not allowed to read about, "...those caring parents do their teen a greater service by allowing them to read whatever they want and making it clear they're willing to discuss it with them afterward: Protecting them by preparing them."

    The world is full of imperfect people with imperfect lives. Why should the books we open to our teenagers be any different?

    10 out of 11 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted Fri Aug 21 00:00:00 EDT 2009

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    This Book was Great!

    i loved it , it was kind of boring in the beginning but it caught up REALLY fast i recommend this book to anyone and i want more of ellen hopkins now i want to read all of her books cause i bet there as great as these ones. and and when ur beginning glass (the second part of this book) u just cant wait to see what happens! this is a great book.

    5 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Thu Jul 05 00:00:00 EDT 2012

    Amazinglly awesome

    She is the best author to ever hit the YA book scene. She has helped me so much through everything Ive been through. From the first time you pick up an Ellen Hopkins book you will want to read more of her work. I ABOSLUTELY LOVE HER BOOKS. Ive recomended them to my friends.

    4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Tue Dec 27 00:00:00 EST 2011

    Lovely collection, inaccurate title on this website though.

    This isn't written by other authors... This is a collection of essays written by Ellen's family talking about their experience with the real life "Kristina/Bree".
    Wonderful read.

    4 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted Wed May 25 00:00:00 EDT 2011

    Go Hunter!!

    I am so glad we got to here from Hunter!

    4 out of 6 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Sun Dec 25 00:00:00 EST 2011

    Amazing

    All of her books are amazing they have helped me trough hard times and i always go to these books if i need help

    3 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Tue Nov 22 00:00:00 EST 2011

    LOVE THEM ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I have read all of her books and loved every single one of them l. Can't wait to read this one and hopefully she writes more. I recomend this to older readers although, it is not something for young readers.

    3 out of 5 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Sat Jan 21 00:00:00 EST 2012

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    I absolutley STRONGLY DISLIKE this ellen hopkins lady because this is all she talks about. Hard times in life abuse

    2 out of 19 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted Mon Feb 14 00:00:00 EST 2011

    this book is terrible

    dont waste your time on this book

    1 out of 9 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Sun Jan 20 00:00:00 EST 2013

    HELP

    How do u get a guy to like u?

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Sun Jan 06 00:00:00 EST 2013

    This Book ...

    Genious cX

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Mon Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 2012

    Amen to janurary 1st

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