# Impulse

**Author:** Ellen Hopkins
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**Age range:** 14–17
**First published:** 2007
**Page count:** 683
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9781416903574`
**ISBN-10:** `1416903577`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/impulse
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Three different paths and three different lives all in the same hospital, whom have all committed one act- suicide.

## Themes

- suicide
- psychiatric hospitals
- mental illness
- interpersonal relations

## Where this book is assigned

### Kentucky Bluegrass Award

- **recommended** · 9th grade · Kentucky — [source: Kentucky Association of School Librarians — Kentucky Bluegrass Award Winner's Circle, 2008 winner (9-12)](https://www.kasl.us/kba/kba-winners-circle)
- **recommended** · 10th grade · Kentucky — [source: Kentucky Association of School Librarians — Kentucky Bluegrass Award Winner's Circle, 2008 winner (9-12)](https://www.kasl.us/kba/kba-winners-circle)
- **recommended** · 11th grade · Kentucky — [source: Kentucky Association of School Librarians — Kentucky Bluegrass Award Winner's Circle, 2008 winner (9-12)](https://www.kasl.us/kba/kba-winners-circle)
- **recommended** · 12th grade · Kentucky — [source: Kentucky Association of School Librarians — Kentucky Bluegrass Award Winner's Circle, 2008 winner (9-12)](https://www.kasl.us/kba/kba-winners-circle)

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