Waking Up Elsewhere: Burned, Impulse, Identical and Tricks.Used to Be a Sweet Kid: at least one a book.Implied with Autumn in Fallout but never outright confirmed. Teen Pregnancy: Kristina in Crank, Pattyn in Burned, Alex in Tricks, Mikayla in Triangles and Tilt.Her other fiction works include Burned, Impulse, Glass, Identical, Tricks. Someone to Remember Him By: Subverted in Burned, as both Ethan and the child die. Her first novel, Crank, was written in verse and met with critical acclaim.

Rape as Drama: In Crank, Impulse, Identical, Tricks, and Perfect.Rape as Backstory: Ginger in Tricks, in a particularly twisted way: her mother sold her to several different men over the course of her childhood. Ellen Hopkins is the New York Times bestselling author of Crank, Burned, Impulse, Glass, Identical, Tricks, Fallout, Perfect, Triangles, Tilt, and Collateral.Prison Rape: Is implied to have happened to Tony from Impulse on several occasions in juvie.Missing Mom: Kristina of Crank and Glass is this to the three narrators of Fallout.However, subverted into just being depressing backstories in most cases. Freudian Excuse: All protagonists in all of her stories have one.Drugs Are Bad: Subverted in Crank and Glass, but comes close to crossing the line a few times.Downer Ending: Burned, Glass, and partially true with Impulse and Tricks.Diabolus Ex Machina: The Downer Ending of Burned has no direct connection to the story's issues (religion-based parental abuse and teenage sex) and comes out of almost nowhere.Deus Angst Machina: Impulse, Glass, and Tricks.Department of Child Disservices: Summer of Fallout goes through several foster homes after her grandparents die and was sexually abused in one of them.Abusive Parents: In pretty much every book.Ellen Hopkins provides examples of the following tropes:

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