Traffick - Softcover

Hopkins, Ellen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1442482885 ISBN 13: 9781442482883

Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2017

Synopsis

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.

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.

And 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. 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. All the way home.

About this title

About the Author:

Ellen Hopkins is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of fourteen young adult novels, as well as the adult novels Triangles, Collateral, and Love Lies Beneath. She lives with her family in Carson City, Nevada, where she has founded Ventana Sierra, a nonprofit youth housing and resource initiative. Visit her at EllenHopkins.com and on Facebook, and follow her on Twitter at @EllenHopkinsLit.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

Traffick A Poem by Cody Bennett

Can’t Find

The courage to leap

the brink, free-fall

beyond the precipice,

hurtle toward

the abyss,

end the pain. Mine.

Mom’s. Oh, she’d feel

the initial sting, cry

for a day or two, but it

would be

short-lived, a quick

stab of grief. Finite.

A satin-lined coffin

and cool, deep hole are

preferable to

walking a treadmill

over a carpet of coals,

enduring the blistering,

skin-cracking flames of

this living hell.

About this edition

• Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1442482885
• ISBN 13: 9781442482883
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528