Tricks

Breanna Broesler //Tricks// Ellen Hopkins Margaret K. McElderry Books 1230 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY 10020 August 25, 2009 Fiction: 626 pages //Tricks// by Ellen Hopkins is a book about what young teens would do anything for survival. Eden, a preacher’s daughter, finds love with a boy Andrew and they both fall for each other, like that fairytale story. Seth find love with a man Loren but when he leaves for New York to become a minister, Seth falls apart. Seth finds companionship with an older man Carl, who brings Seth to Las Vegas. Whitney tries to find love with a boy Lucas, who breaks her heart after the first time they have sex. Ginger, whose mom is a prostitute, thought she could never love because of the men her mom sent home to rape her. Ginger finds love in Alex, they become a little more then friends, but things change when they both get introduced to prostitution. Money gets really tight for Cody so he turns to prostitution in order to help pay the bills. What would you do for love?