

This study runs contrary to what some are suggesting in recent years. Writing in her characteristic narrative poetry style, Ellen Hopkins shows once again how well she knows today's teens and the issues that matter to them. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University recently released a study stating there was no conclusive evidence of a gene that causes a person to be gay, lesbian or transgender. Both girls must figure out how to become whole, but how can they when their world has been torn to shreds? Raeanne uses painkillers, drugs, alcohol, and sex to numb the pain of not being Daddy's favorite. She cuts herself and vomits after every binge, desperate to feel something normal. Kaeleigh is the good girl-her father's perfect flower, something she has tried so hard to be since she was nine and he started sexually abusing her. During the Mike Hopkins era there has been a pretty clear type for who he has brought in from the transfer portal: players from the Seattle area. Everything on the surface of their lives seems Norman Rockwell perfect, but underneath run deep and damaging secrets. Kaeleigh and Raeanne are sixteen-year-old identical twins, the daughters of a district court judge father and politician mother running for Congress. Follow her on Twitter at EllenHopkinsLit. She lives with her family in Carson City, Nevada, where she has founded Ventana Sierra, a nonprofit youth housing and resource initiative. by Ellen Hopkins First published in 2008 4 editions in 1 language 1 previewable Borrow Listen.

In the latest hard-hitting YA novel by the New York Times bestselling author, sixteen-year-old identical twin girls must come to terms with their abusive father. Ellen Hopkins is the 1 New York Times bestselling author of numerous young adult novels, as well as the adult novels such as Triangles, Collateral, and Love Lies Beneath. Ellen Louise Hopkins (born March 26, 1955) is a novelist who has published several New York Times bestselling novels that are popular among the teenage and young adult audience.source.
