Poet Gary Soto captures the voices of young people as they venture toward their first kiss, brood over bruised hearts, and feel the thrill of first love.

Autobiographical poems recount events in a teenager's life, including her battles with eating disorders, her time in treatment facilities, and the suicide of her boyfriend.

Poetic Outlines of a Teenager by Jessica Holden is a collection of poems based on her experiences as a teenager in the foster care system. Each poem is a reflection of pain, joy, innocence, love, and triumph. This is a collection of life lived, life loved, and life renewed.

This anthology of poems written by teens was selected and assembled from the 27 years of submissions to Teen Ink magazine.

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.

"I Am Me: Teen Artists and Writers Speak Out on Being Yourself pairs award winning art and writing to empower teens to shake off negative influences and realize it is okay to be themselves. Each piece of art is skillfully matched with writing to reflect the attitude of a generation of teens who want to fit in, but feel inadequate due to societal pressures. This is a powerful book that can help young people believe that you don't have to achieve 'perfection'...