Crank

Its place in Crank

Crank is book 1 in the Crank series. It is followed by Glass. See the full Crank reading order.

Ellen Hopkins wrote Crank about her own daughter's addiction, fictionalizing Kristina Snow -- a good student who visits her largely absent father, meets "the monster" (crystal meth), and finds a wilder, riskier alter ego named Bree taking over her life. The trilogy follows the consequences across a decade: Glass picks up with Kristina now a teenage mother still unable to control her addiction, and Fallout shifts perspective entirely to her three children -- Hunter, Autumn, and Summer -- each shaped, in different…