Ellen Hopkins: Banned, Bold, and Brilliant
Ellen Hopkins turns verse into a weapon of truth. Her bestselling novels like Crank, Tricks, and Burned explore addiction, abuse, mental health, and identity with unflinching honesty and poetic power.
Her work has earned serious acclaim—Hopkins is a Nevada Writers Hall of Fame inductee and recipient of the Silver Pen Award. Crank alone racked up multiple reader’s choice awards and launched her career as a YA powerhouse.
But not everyone applauds. Hopkins is one of the most frequently banned authors in the U.S., with multiple titles removed from school shelves for being “too real.” She argues that teens deserve stories that reflect their world—not sugarcoat it.
Raw, resonant, and routinely censored, Ellen Hopkins writes books that matter. And that's exactly why we stock them.
