{"id":99,"date":"2023-11-11T18:11:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T18:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ellenhopkinsbooks.com\/?page_id=99"},"modified":"2023-11-21T18:01:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T18:01:13","slug":"traffick","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ellenhopkinsbooks.com\/?page_id=99","title":{"rendered":"TRAFFICK"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"ABOUT THE BOOK<\/h3>\n

Five teens victimized by sex trafficking try to find their way to a new life in this riveting companion to the New York Times bestselling author of Tricks from Ellen Hopkins, author of Crank.<\/p>\n

In her bestselling novel, Tricks, Ellen Hopkins introduced us to five memorable characters tackling these enormous questions: Eden, the preacher\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

BOOK EXCERPT<\/span><\/h3>\n
\n
YOU KNOW MY STORY<\/h5>\n
\n

A POEM BY CODY BENNETT COULDN’T FIND<\/p>\n

The courage to leap
\nthe brink, free fall
\nbeyond the precipice,
\nhurtle toward
\nthe abyss,<\/p>\n

end the pain. Mine.
\nMom’s. Oh, she’d feel
\nthe initial sting, cry
\nfor a day or two, but it
\nwould be<\/p>\n

short-lived, a quick
\nstab of grief. Finite.
\nA satin-lined coffin
\nand cool, deep hole are
\npreferable to<\/p>\n

walking a treadmill
\nover a carpet of coals,
\nenduring the blistering,
\nskin-cracking flames of
\nthis living hell.
\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n


\nWILL I WALK
\nAway from here, this dirty
\ncity, where people come
\nin search of Lady Luck,
\ncertain she’ll guide them to
\nthe fortune she owes them,
\nor\n

to shed their skins, reveal
\nthe extraordinary creatures
\nbeneath, aliens they struggle
\nto conceal from spouses,
\nministers, their local PTA.
\nWill<\/p>\n

I walk away from her?
\nMy best friend, turned lover
\nbefore our tumble from
\nenlightenment, if such a thing
\never belonged to me. Can
\nI<\/p>\n

excise her from my heart
\nas easily as she deserted me?
\nIf I opened my arms, begged
\nher to return, would she come
\nback, or would she turn and
\nrun?
\nthe monster.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n

REVIEW FOR TRAFFICK<\/span><\/h3>\n
\n
REVIEWS FROM BOOKLIST:<\/h5>\n

“Hopkins\u2019 undeniable empathyfor young people remains sincere and moving.” \u2014Booklist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ABOUT THE BOOK Five teens victimized by sex trafficking try to find their way to a new life in this riveting companion to the New York Times bestselling author of 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\u2019s 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 BOOK EXCERPT YOU KNOW MY STORY REVIEW FOR TRAFFICK REVIEWS FROM BOOKLIST: “Hopkins\u2019 undeniable empathyfor young people remains sincere and moving.” \u2014Booklist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-99","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenhopkinsbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenhopkinsbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenhopkinsbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenhopkinsbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellenhopkinsbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ellenhopkinsbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/ellenhopkinsbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellenhopkinsbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}