For Teens Who Think They Hate Poetry

And Even For Those Who Don't

Clifton, Lucille. The Times They Used to Be. J FIC

Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States. 811.08 COO

Cormier, Robert. Frenchtown Summer. J 811 COR

Creech, Sharon. Love That Dog. J FIC

Glenn, Mel.

• Foreign Exchange. YA FIC
• Jump Ball. YA FIC
• Split Image. YA FIC
• The Taking of Room 114. YA FIC
• Who Killed Mr. Chippendale? YA FIC

Grimes, Nikki. Jazmin's Notebook. YA FIC

Herrerra, Juan Felipe.

• Crashboomlove. YA FIC
• Laughing Out Loud I Fly. 811 HER

Hesse, Karen.

• Out of the Dust. J FIC
• Witness. J FIC

Jewel. A Night Without Armor: Poems. 811 JEW

Nelson, Marilyn. Carver: A Life in Poems.*

Koertge, R. The Brimstone Journals. YA FIC

Mora, Pat. My Own True Name: New and Selected Poems for Young Adults. YA 811 MOR

Quiet Storm: Voices of Young Black Poets. YA 811.08 QUI

Slam. YA 808.81 ALL (Foreword by Tori Amos)

Sones, Sonya.

• Stop Pretending. YA FIC
• What My Mother Doesn’t Know. YA FIC

Things I Have to Tell You: Poems and Writing by Teenage Girls. YA 810.08 THI

Wilson, C. J. Limited Vision. YA 811 WIL

Wolff, Virginia Euwer.

• Make Lemonade. YA FIC
• True Believer. YA FIC

Wong, Janet S. Behind the Wheel: Poems About Driving. YA 811 WON

You Hear Me? Poems and Writing by Teenage Boys. YA 810.08 YOU

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