{"id":2594,"date":"2018-03-21T20:19:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T20:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/2018\/03\/tricks-2\/"},"modified":"2018-04-05T13:59:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T13:59:04","slug":"tricks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/2018\/03\/tricks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      FlumeAward &#8211; Tricks                Discussion page for <em>Tricks<\/em>.<br \/>Of all of Ellen Hopkins books, I think that Tricks is the most difficult to read and keep the characters straight. The story talks about 5 (I think) kids and their pathways into prostitution. Each section is about a different kid and it cycles through the kids repeatedly telling their story from their point of view. Like always, Hopkins creates her poetry in a manner that flows from one section to another and it just kind of works, but this many stories are a lot to juggle. I do think that it will appeal to some 9-12 graders, but several of my Ellen Hopkins-loving students have expressed disappointment with this title. I don&#8217;t think that this should make the final 13. Sharon Flesher &#8211; Nashua South<\/p>\n<p>I have read all of the Ellen Hopkin&#8217;s books, and I like this least of all. It had 5 characters to keep straight and some of it was so manipulative it made me angry. I felt dirty after I read it, and I have read other books with this topic and didn&#8217;t feel that way. I strongly hope this does not make the final list.<br \/>~Kathy Watson, Kimball Library<\/p>\n<p>I like the 5 different points of view, and the topic is one the kids are interested in. We have four copies and cannot keep them on the shelf. It&#8217;s her latest book so I&#8217;d rather see this on the list than Identical if we were going to add one of hers to the list. The book already goes out a lot so do we need the Flume to promote it more?<br \/>-Kelly Budd, KHS      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FlumeAward &#8211; Tricks Discussion page for Tricks.Of all of Ellen Hopkins books, I think that Tricks is the most difficult to read and keep the characters straight. The story talks &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"moree\"><a class=\"btn btn-inverse btn-normal btn-primary \" href=\"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/2018\/03\/tricks-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flume-award-titles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3503,"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions\/3503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}