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    Cool salsa : bilingual poems on growing up Latino in the United States

    811.08 C77C

 

    Poems celebrating Hispanic culture are the focus of this collection.  Topics for poems

    extend from hot dogs to learning English to the revolution in Nicaragua. What all of

    the selections have in common is the adolescent experience at the core of the poem.

 

 

 

 

 

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Fiction Told in Verse

 

    Keesha's House

    Frost, Helen

    Fiction F9293k

 

    Seven teens facing such problems as pregnancy, closeted homosexuality,

    and abuse each describe in poetic forms what caused them to leave home

    and where they found home again.

 

    Who Killed Mr. Chippendale?: A Mystery in Poems

    Glenn, Mel

    Fiction G487w 1996

 

    Free verse poems describe the reactions of students, colleagues, and others when a high

    school teacher is shot to death as the school day begins.

 

 

 

 

    Out of the Dust

 

    Hesse, Karen

    Fiction H4632o 1999

 

    In a series of poems, fourteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's

    wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.

 

 

 

 

    The First Part Last

    Johnson, Angela

    Fiction J6303f

 

    Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must

    care for his adored baby daughter.

 

 

 

    The Realm of Possibility

    Levithan, David

    Fiction L579re

 

 

    A variety of students at the same high school describe their ideas, experiences, and

    relationships in a series of interconnected free verse stories.

 

 

    One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies

    Sones, Sonya

    Fiction So571o

 

    Fifteen-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother's

    grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star

    who divorced her mother before Ruby was born.

 

 

 

 

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