You hear me? : poems and writing by teenage boys / edited by Betsy Franco.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Franco, Betsy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adolescence--Literary collections.

Adolescence.

Youths' writings.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Physical Description:

xv, 107 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2000.

Summary:

An anthology of stories, poems, and essays by adolescent boys on issues that concern them.

Contents:

Time somebody told me / Quantedius Hall

Topic 1: Introductions / Thomas Andrade

Front seat rider / Triston L. Dunnett

Just because I love darkness... / Marcel Mendoza

Joker / Michael Tobias Bloom

Dark cellar / Joshua White

He shaved his head / Rene Ruiz

Broken glass / Joshua Bonds

Instructions for life / Brando

The torch / Michael R. Jackson

My pockets ain't that phat / Shysuaune T. Taylor

Ode to my hair tail / Rigo Landin

Being beat up / Nick Sletten

I am / James Balzer

Carabao dreams / Timothy Arevalo

Just like me / Lawan Mitchell

Out of my life / Corey Edge.

Sleep / Kyle Blanchard

I hate school / Kenny Weiss

I never told this to anyone / Maurice Beaman

I'll be here / David Ho

Faces / Dan Gallagher

In this darkness, I stand still ... / Jared Ryan Jackson Lowry

Me / Jared Ryan Jackson Lowry

Chant / Tommie Spivey

Black boy blues / Shysuaune T. Taylor

There's a Harlem renaissance in my head / Maurice E. Duhon, Jr.

What I am (in the eyes of my father) / Dwight Beavers

Ode to caring / Benjamin D. Martin

Sometimes... / Michael Tobias Bloom

Does my mother look like this? / Seth Chappell

Words on hands / Shysuaune T. Taylor

My dad and me / Jaime Daryl Marconette

I refuse / Steven Hill

What happened papa ... / Joshua Bonds

Ascension / Biko Eisen-Martin

I don't ... / Chorus Bishop

The bus stop / Fred Brown

People got more / Fred Brown.

I want / Troy Williams

Envy / Kyle L. White

My life / DeQon L. Abner

Bumming through Pittsburgh? Maybe not / Anthony E. W. Kirkland

Neighborhood watch / Troy Williams

The best Christmas of Onasis Rodriguez / Onasis Hafid Rodriguez

Tripod / Michael Kinsey

First love / Stephan Johnson

Foul / Hussian Fry

I love to hear / Tito D. Tate

The girl I like / Ronnie Ross

Love between two cultures / Juan C. Medina Arias

Sunlight bouncing from hair ... / DTB

I watch you ... / Bryan Phillips

Satisfaction of an orange / Benjamin D. Martin

Me and woman kind / Samuel Fox

A kiss... / Scott Baker

So what's up between us? / Thomas Andrade

"Julia" / Todd VanDerWerff

"Dana" / Todd VanDerWerff

Of earthworms and you / Todd VanDerWerff

Sort of a fly... / Ward Hoelscher

An easy clean-up... / Todd VanDerWerff.

Guts / Kevin N. Gabayan

Mail / Emmanuel E. Carter

Floating / Stephan Johnson

I need to do something... / Thomas Andrade

Song for my father / Stephan Johnson

The baby she loved too much to keep / Todd VanDerWerff

Time lost forever? / John H. Taylor

Dear God / John Merrell

A poem for us / Timothy Arevalo

The elements are at their peak ... / Kyle Blanchard

A feeling... / dr.

ISBN:

0763611581

OCLC:

42921285