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    Skin Deep and Other Teenage Reflections
    Skin Deep and Other Teenage Reflections
    Skin Deep and Other Teenage Reflections
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    Skin Deep and Other Teenage Reflections

    By Angela Shelf Medearis

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    Offering a powerful-but-playful portrait of urban teens—especially teens of color—this collection of poetry is at once rife with contemporary issues as well as the timeless challenges of high school. Whether focusing on topics such as troubled families, racism in the streets, and depression or boy-girl obsession, the joys of graduation, sports triumphs, and personal achievement, Angela Shelf Medearis writes with wry humor and a direct honesty with which young readers will immediately identify. This is an excellent resource to engage adolescent readers and writers in a discussion of issues they will recognize from their own lives.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWings Press
    Release dateJan 1, 2014
    ISBN9781609403645
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      Book preview

      Skin Deep and Other Teenage Reflections - Angela Shelf Medearis

      Medearis

      REPORT CARD

      I’d have an A in algebra

      or even a good passing

      B

      or even a tried but couldn’t quite make it

      C

      if good-looking you

      weren’t seated right next to me.

      What Would I Do Without You?

      What would I do without you?

      My friend. My best friend.

      You’re as close

      (sometimes closer)

      to me than my own family.

      You know all my secrets,

      and you never tell.

      You held my hand when I thought I

      was going to lose my mind,

      bought my lunch

      with your last dollar,

      loaned me your favorite

      shirt and stayed mad only

      for a little while when I lost it.

      You always find something about me to

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