Burned · Book 1
Burned
- Published
- 1 January 2006
- Pages
- 532
- ISBN-13
- 9781416903543
- Type
- novel
About this book
Ellen Hopkins opened the Burned series in 2006 with the titular first book, a 532-page verse novel following Pattyn Von Stratten, the oldest of six daughters in a strict Mormon household, whose summer at her aunt's Nevada ranch and first taste of freedom ends in tragedy. It became one of Hopkins's most frequently challenged books for its treatment of abuse and sexuality.
Its place in Burned
Burned is book 1 in the Burned series. It is followed by Smoke. See the full Burned reading order.
Pattyn Von Stratten is the oldest of six daughters in a strict Mormon household ruled by a violent, controlling father. Sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer as punishment for asking too many questions, she falls in love with a boy named Ethan and gets her first real taste of a life outside her father's control -- one that ends in tragedy in Burned (2006). Smoke , the sequel, picks up the aftermath: told in alternating voices between Pattyn, on the run from the law and grieving Ethan and the child she…
Editions
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- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781442494619
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