Island Boyz

Graham Salisbury. Wendy Lamb Books, $16.95 (272pp) ISBN 978-0-385-72970-3

In You Are Here This Is Now: The Best Young Writers and Artists in America, ed. by David Levithan, contemporary teens weigh in with 60 short stories, poems and essays plus photographs and paintings. The contributors, middle- and high school students, are winners of the 1999, 2000 and 2001 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. A color insert is included. (Apr)

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