All living their lives as best they can, but all searching…for freedom, safety, community, family, love. When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.įive teenagers from different parts of the country. In the process, he is beaten up by a man and gets put into a coma.Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love in this #1 New York Times bestselling novel from Ellen Hopkins. Prostitution to help his mother pay bills without her knowledge. Then, Ginger learns her mother is dying.Ĭody has to deal with taking care of his family after the death of his stepfather. Ginger and Alex get absorbed in the real life of being an exotic dancer, and they are put into rehab. Ginger runs away from home with her girlfriend Alex after her mother tries to sell her. Ginger is the sixteen year old daughter of a drug-addicted, alcoholic mother who hates being a mother. She ends up overdosing on drugs and wakes up in the hospital. She lives in the shadows of her older sister and deals with being addicted to drugs and searching for affection. Whitney is the fifteen year old daughter of uncaring and disinterested parents. With Seth, Seth must go into prostitution and finds another man with whom to continue a relationship.
Seth ends up being with a much older man, who provides him with gifts, shelter, and food in exchange for love. Seth is the son of a conservative farmer who kicks him out for being gay.
Ultimately after getting into a massive amount of trouble, she ends up getting saved by Father Gregory when she goes to church. There, Eden steps into a bad part of the world, and experiences life in Vegas. Her father is a local preacher. Eden's parents send her away to a rehabilitation camp after she absolutely refuses to stop seeing her boyfriend, Andrew. Eden is a sixteen year old girl, who lives in a conservative and religious family.
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