Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack Summary
M. E. Kerr (Marijane Meaker)

Everything you need to understand or teach Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack by M. E. Kerr (Marijane Meaker).

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Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack Summary

Despite its deliberately misleading title, Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack belies classification as a trendy and sensational novel of the 1970s, a decade when public outcry against drug use among youth began to surface in strength. The primary subject of the novel is not drug use, but rather the problems in human relationships that adolescents seek to escape, sometimes through selfdestructive behavior. As such, the novel ranges far beyond a simplistic morality tale about...

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