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by Mel Glenn

An illustrated collection of sixty-five poems describing the feelings, insights, and aspirations of a variety of high school students and their teachers.

Genres: Poetry, Young Adult

Hardcover

First published October 17, 1988

Reviews

[Janet · Rating 4 out of 5]

enjoying that I have discovered some Mel Glenn books that I never read.

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

I first learned of Mel Glenn's work over a year ago when I read Who Killed Mr. Chippendale? as a possible genre book for mysteries. (It was too graphic for 7th graders.) I learned that he had other books and I bought some on eBay. This book got lost in the stacks on my desk.

I enjoy his poetry and I suspect my students will, too. Although the photos are dated, the connection between the poetry written and the photographs of actual students (from the 80s) provides a connection between speaker and poem. The poems, themselves, reminded me of life in high school (although I admit that there's a possible connection felt because I was in high school in the 80s).

I think anyone who is or was an adolescent in American high school can appreciate this book of poetry.

[Krista the Krazy Kataloguer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not quite as good as some of his other books.