A collection of poems, each with a different teen narrator sharing unique thoughts, moments, sadness, or heart's desire: the girl who loves swimming, plunging into the water that creates her own world; the guy who leaves flowers on the windshield of the girl he likes. Each of the teens in these 50 original poems, written using a variety of poetic forms, will be recognizable to the reader as the universal emotions, ideas, impressions, and beliefs float across the pages in these gracefully told verses.

190 girls and women share poems and stories about their adventures, families, dreams and emotions. Many of the pieces in this anthology connect with Los Angeles, where concrete rivers, vines of jasmine and miles of freeways weave a complex web of canyons, landmarks and neighborhoods

Get to know the Get Lit Players, a group of teens who use poetry to take on the world, with this common-core aligned book that sheds light on teen issues through their own poetry and slam poetry performances

A collection of poems in Spanish and English about childhood, place, and identity.

A beautiful novel-in-verse about an adoptee, Rynn, trying to come to terms with her abusive mother and finding her family roots. Searching for her birth mother, she finds a younger sister who is in foster care. Yearning to make a connection she sets off a chain of events that will have the reader rooting for Rynn at every turn.

This is a book of original poetry by and for teens. Dramatic, plaintive, despairing, and hopeful, this unusual collection has been gathered together by artists Esther Pearl Watson and Mark Todd and dramatically illustrated with stunning paintings.

Here is a cross-section of American poetry as it is right now, full of grit and love, sparkling with humor, searing the heart, smashing through boundaries on every page. Please Excuse This Poem features one hundred acclaimed younger poets from truly diverse backgrounds and points of view, whose work has appeared everywhere from The New Yorker to Twitter, tackling a startling range of subjects in a startling range of poetic forms. Dealing with the aftermath of war; unpacking the meaning of "the rape joke"; sharing the tender moments at the start of a love affair: these poems tell the world as they see it.

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.

Free verse poems that explore how girls are taught to think about themselves, their bodies, their friends--as consumers, as objects, as competitors. Based on classic fairy tale characters and fairy tale tropes, the poems range from contemporary retellings to first person accounts set within the original stories. From Snow White cottage and Rapunzel's tower to health class and the prom, these poems are a moving depiction of young women, society, and our expectations.

In the spring of 2012 the Los Angeles Public Library brought in leading Angeleno poets to teach writing workshops for teens at the Arroyo Seco Regional Branch. They met twice each week to explore issues grounded in their experience growing up in Highland Park. This is their poetry.