Experiencing first love, dealing with crushes, and mending a broken heart are some of the topics of love and life captured in these poems, told from the point of view of young adults of both sexes and diverse ethnicities.

Sixteen-year-old Billy runs away from his alcoholic, abusive father and takes up residence in an abandoned freight car where he meets Old Bill, a fellow hobo, and together they form a friendship based on small kindnesses that change their lives.

"From the heady rush of first love to the depths of introspection, from grappling with identity to wrestling with the world at large, this anthology encapsulates the universal experiences that define today's youth. It's not just about the dizzying highs and challenging lows, but about the quiet moments in between - those fleeting instants of realization that often lead to profound personal transformation"-- Amazon.com.

Presents a collection of poetry written by teens, who share their thoughts, hopes, and dreams while offering insight and empathy.

A collection of poems about the experiences of young people and a section with information about how each poem was written to enable readers to create their own original poems.

A series of poems reflect the thoughts and feelings of various people--students, the librarian, parents, the principal, and others--about the seemingly perfect Laura Li and her life inside and out of Tower High School. Provides a series of poems reflecting the thoughts and feelings of various people from her school, about the seemingly perfect Laura Li and her life inside and out of Tower High School.

"While society often assigns the label 'knucklehead' to kids with attitude problems, this . . . poetry collection by spoken word poet and hip-hop educator Tony Keith Jr. subverts that narrow way of thinking and empathizes with young people who are misunderstood and unheard. There are poems about the power of language to transcend the racist and homophobic constructs of a society prejudging Black boys. There are poems that serve as a salve for a world...