Written in free verse, explores how three teenagers try to cope with the consequences of their mother's addiction to crystal meth and its effects on their lives.

Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.

Kristina Snow is a good third year high school student. But when she visits her drug-dealing father, she is introduced to crystal meth, or 'crank.' Kristina quickly develops a drug alter ego named Bree, who is fast, sexy, and daring. But Bree's insatiable need for the monster, crank, drives her further into perilous behavior. Written in free verse, Crank is based on Ellen Hopkins' experience with her own daughter.