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Title: Tilt
Author: Ellen Hopkins
Narrator: Kirby Heyborne, Madeleine Maby, Rebekkahj Ross
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-11-14
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 66 votes
Genres: Teens, Fiction & Literature
Publisher's Summary:
Love - good and bad - forces three teens' worlds to tilt in a riveting standalone novel from #1 New York Timesbest-selling author Ellen Hopkins.
Three teens, three stories - all interconnected through their parents' family relationships. As the adults pull away, caught up in their own dilemmas, the worlds of the teens begin to tilt.
Mikayla, almost 18, is over-the-top in love with Dylan, who loves her back jealously. But what happens to that love when Mikayla gets pregnant the summer before their senior year and decides to keep the baby?
Shane turns 16 that same summer and falls hard in love with his first boyfriend, Alex, who happens to be HIV positive. Shane has lived for four years with his little sister's impending death. Can he accept Alex's love, knowing his life, too, will be shortened?
Harley is 14 - a good girl searching for new experiences, especially love from an older boy. She never expects to hurdle toward self-destructive extremes in order to define who she is and who she wants to be.
Love, in all its forms, has crucial consequences in this wrenching story from Ellen Hopkins.
Editorial Reviews:
"By turns poised and visceral." (
School Library Journal)
Critic Reviews:
"This will be recognizable territory to anyone who has read Hopkins' earlier novelsAs a cautionary tale, however, this offers helpful insights into the continuing presence of HIV in teen lives and the urgency of making better choices in matters involving sex." (
Booklist)
"Brimming with shoes about to drop (some do, some don't) and the drama her fans devour" (
Kirkus Reviews)