![]() Ellen Hopkins finds a way to bring her personal experience together with hours of research and studying to once again bring us with such a beautiful work of words. The two children struggle to adjusting their lives from home, school, parents. But when faced with the dilemma they are, Cal takes the lead, and brings them to a better life. Hannah is used to being an old child with the perfect life, and taking in Cal really disrupt her life. Feeling misplaced all his life Cal struggles to fit in. Cal losses his mom and moves in with his cousin and her parents. Closer to Nowhere follows Hannah and Cal, two cousins, from identical twin mothers. I never for a second thought adult me would relate to this story so well. Let me start with: I do not read the synopsis of new releases from my favorite authors, I jump in blind. 1 Personal life Hopkins was adopted by Albert and Valeria Wagner when they were 72 and 42 respectively. I dove into it as soon it touched my hands release day. 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. ![]() She lives with her family in Carson City, Nevada, where she founded Ventana Sierra, a nonprofit youth housing and resource initiative. But ultimately my love (of all things Ellen Hopkin’s and my profession) over took. Ellen Hopkins is the 1 New York Times bestselling author of several novels for young adult, as well as the adult novels Triangles, Collateral, and Love Lies Beneath. ![]() ![]() In my late 20’s I’ve been following Ellen since Crank. When I first read this was for the upper juvenile audience, I hesitated. ![]()
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