Tricks
- Published
- 1 January 2009
- Pages
- 656
- ISBN-13
- 9781416950073
- Type
- novel
About this book
Ellen Hopkins's Tricks (2009), a 656-page verse novel, follows five teenagers -- Eden, Seth, Whitney, Ginger and Cody -- as each ends up selling their bodies, exploring how ordinary teenage vulnerabilities get exploited into sex trafficking.
Key facts about Tricks
Ellen Hopkins wrote Tricks, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2009. The book has 656 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781416950073 to find the main one.
Tricks is book 1 of 2 in the Tricks series. The series has 2 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
Additionally, Ellen Hopkins writes Crank, Burned and Impulse, plus 1 more series. Those series sit on our young_adult and fiction shelves. Meanwhile, Sync is the latest published Ellen Hopkins book on file, from 2024.
About Ellen Hopkins
Ellen Hopkins was born March 26, 1955, in Long Beach, California, and studied at Crafton Hills College, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Institute of Children's Literature. See every Ellen Hopkins book in order.
Its place in Tricks
Tricks is book 1 in the Tricks series. It is followed by Traffick. See the full Tricks reading order.
Five teenagers -- Eden, a preacher's daughter; Seth, a gay farm boy disowned by his father; Whitney, a privileged kid drawn in by a pimp's attention; Ginger, a runaway arrested for soliciting an undercover cop; and Cody, whose gambling debts force his hand -- each end up selling their bodies in Tricks (2009), Ellen Hopkins's verse novel about how ordinary teenage vulnerabilities get exploited into sex trafficking. Traffick (2015), the long-awaited sequel, follows the same five characters afterward, asking whether…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781416950073