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Gr 7-9 This "novel in poems" covers the school year of a girl who is young enough to be shaving her legs for the first time but old enough to be learning how to kiss. Between fall and spring, she goes from an imaginary boyfriend to a real one to the loss of that boyfriend: "-all the space in the world/wouldn't be enough for him/and as close as he could ever come to me/would never/be close enough for me." From the humiliation of ge...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Familiar adolescent girl milestones—first crush, first period, first big fight with best friend—are recorded here in a series of linked poems laid out to read as if they come straight from the teen narrator's private journal. Wayland's verse is not great literature, which is partly why it sounds so authentic. Like the majority of poetry actually written by teens, it's a little melodrama...Log In or Sign Up to Read More