Heartwrenching and hopeful, Traffick takes us on five separate but intertwined journeys through the painful challenges of recovery, rehabilitation, and renewal to forgiveness and love. In her bestselling novel, Tricks, Ellen Hopkins introduced us to five memorable characters tackling these enormous questions: Eden, the preacher’s daughter who turns tricks in Vegas and is helped into a child prostitution rescue Seth, the gay farm boy disowned by his father who finds himself without money or resources other than his own body Whitney, the privileged kid coaxed into the life by a pimp and whose dreams are ruined in a heroin haze Ginger, who runs away from home with her girlfriend and is arrested for soliciting an undercover cop and Cody, whose gambling habit forces him into the life, but who is shot and left for dead.Īnd now, in Traffick, these five are faced with the toughest question of all: Is there a way out? How these five teenagers face the aftermath of their decisions and experiences is the soul of this story that exposes the dark, ferocious underbelly of the child trafficking trade. Just like so much of life.Five teens victimized by sex trafficking try to find their way to a new life in this “sincere and moving” ( Booklist) companion to the #1 New York Times bestselling Tricks from Ellen Hopkins, author of Crank. 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?”Ī brilliant achievement from New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins-who has been called “the bestselling living poet in the country” by - Tricks is a book that turns you on and repels you at the same time.

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.įive 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. All living their lives as best they can, but all searching…for freedom, safety, community, family, love.

When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.įive teenagers from different parts of the country.

Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love in this #1 New York Times bestselling novel from Ellen Hopkins.

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