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= Glass by Ellen Hopkins =

= = Glass is the continuing story of Crank, in Crank a girl, Kristina, tried crank for her first time and gets hooked. By the end of the book, she's pregnant with the child of a man who raped her. Glass starts off with Kristina, or Bree, caring for the baby, living with her parents. Kristina isn't even 18 years old yet. She names the baby Hunter and she laid off the crank for a while. But she couldn't handle the monster calling for her, she gave in again. Since she started crank again she met a friend's room mate, Trey, who she falls in love with. Kristina let herself crash one night while babysitting Hunter, bad idea, she fell asleep and Hunter fell out of his chair and hurt himself. Kristina gets kicked out of her house, without her child. Kristina moves in with Trey's cousin and his two daughters, Latreya and Devon. When Trey's wife decides to come back to her children and move back in with them and her husband, Kristina is forced to leave. Her and Trey get an apartment together and can barely afford it because they're poor. They steal checks from Kristina's mother, and deal meth to get by. For here the situation only gets worse, Kristina and Trey can't afford living in the apartment so they end up sleeping in Trey's car and eating McDonalds. While they were sleeping in the car one night when they decided to crash, they get approached by a cop for parking somewhere they weren't supposed to be. The cop searched the car and found a lockbox full of Crystal Meth, and Kristina's mother also turned them in for stealing from her. As the author states in the end of the book, Kristina and Trey will no longer share an apartment, a car, a bed, a pipe, a cigarette, a kiss, promises, dreams or vows. The only thing they will share is a baby. That is, if they get out of jail in time.

Book review: http://www.commonsensemedia.org/book-reviews/Glass.html

Related web page: http://www.ellenhopkins.com/

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