Tilt

Ellen Hopkins

Feb 2014 · Simon and Schuster · Narrated by Kirby Heyborne, Madeleine Maby, and Rebekkah Ross

About this audiobook

Love—good and bad—forces three teens’ worlds to tilt in a riveting novel from New York Times bestselling 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 lives of the teens begin to tilt...​

Mikayla, almost eighteen, is over-the-top in love with Dylan, who loves her back. But what happens to that love when Mikayla gets pregnant the summer before their senior year—and decides to keep the baby?

Shane turns sixteen 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 that his life, too, will be shortened?

Harley is fourteen—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 standalone novel.

Ratings and reviews

As ALWAYS another awesome book by Ellen Hopkins. This book takes the reader/listener through several different people's lives, however they are also intertwined into one another. Some knowingly, some not. I love how this book touches on topics that are "real" life issues both teens & adults go through. She has a way of seamlessly writing about thoughts and feelings that bring me back to when I was a teenager, and going through so very many of the issues the teens were going through, and she always hits the "nail on the head", so to speak. I have read & then listened to close to all of Ellen Hopkins books, and they never disappoint!

Pages were too short. Couldn't understand the meaning of the book.

About the author

Ellen Hopkins is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of numerous young adult novels, as well as the adult novels such as Triangles, Collateral, and Love Lies Beneath. She lives with her family in Carson City, Nevada, where she has founded Ventana Sierra, a nonprofit youth housing and resource initiative. Follow her on Twitter at @EllenHopkinsLit.