cover image Things I Have to Tell You: Poems and Writing by Teenage Girls

Things I Have to Tell You: Poems and Writing by Teenage Girls

. Candlewick Press (MA), $15.99 (80pp) ISBN 978-0-7636-0905-4

In Things I Have to Tell You: Poems and Writing by Teenage Girls, editor Betsy Franco gathers more than 30 poems by adolescents into a poignant collection of prose and poetry. Black-and-white photographs by Nina Nickles accompany each work, and the pairings offer glimpses into the writers' raw anger, budding sexuality and search for identity.( May)