well kids these days start doing drugs at an early age,especially when they hit the teen age. So if they read books like these, hopefully they can realize drugs is the wrong path to go down and they can choose the right path.

This is yet another book that younger kids probably wouldn't understand very well. A lot of sex is involved to and language is definitely not mild.

This is a great book. It's very informative about drugs, prostitution, and despair. Ellen Hopkins is an amazing author, and I commend her on telling it like it is. Don't like what she's writing? Deal with it, because it's reality. On a side note, I found it rather disturbing even though I'm fifteen, considering the desperate situations the characters are in, and no one under fourteen or fifteen should read this novel.