At first, teachers and school librarians were slow to recommend these books, but once teens began to pick them up, read, and then talk about them, teachers and librarians could not ignore her popularity with young adult audiences. While Hopkins started out as a nonfiction writer of high-interest books for juvenile readers, her fiction work is what drew the acclaim of critics and her readers. As a result, she receives hundreds of thousands of letters and emails from her readers, most of which she will answer, making an effort to impart whatever advice her readers are asking for.
The honesty, while an affront to many people, is the core of her seven (soon to be nine) books that deal with teen prostitution, drugs, abuse, homosexuality, religious fundamentalism, suicide, cutting, and many other issues.
This truth telling is what has endeared her to her readers. And Andre realizes to follow his heart and achieve his perfect performance, he’ll be living a life his ancestors would never understand.Įveryone wants to be perfect, but when perfection loses its meaning, how far will you go? What would you give up to be perfect? A riveting and startling companion to the Bestselling Impulse, Ellen Hopkins's Perfect exposes the harsh truths about what it takes to grow up and grow into our own skins, our own selves.Hopkins tries hard to write the entire picture-no matter how ugly, deceiving, or raw it is-so her readers will know that she is being as honest as she can be.Įllen Hopkins once told me that she tries to always write the truth in her books because “my readers will call me on it if I don’t.” Because of this, she tries hard to write the entire picture-no matter how ugly, deceiving, or raw it is-so her readers will know that she is being as honest as she can be. To score his perfect home run-on the field and off-Sean will sacrifice more than he can ever win back. Kendra covets the perfect face and body-no matter what surgeries and drugs she needs to get there. For her, perfect means rejecting their ideals to take a chance on a new kind of love. For four high-school seniors, their goals of perfection are just as different as the paths they take to get there.Ĭara’s parents’ unrealistic expectations have already sent her twin brother Conner spiraling toward suicide. McElderry Books - September 13th, 2011Įveryone has something, someone, somewhere else that they’d rather be.
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