Rush Hour: Bad Boys

Michael Cart. Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers, $9.95 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-385-73033-4

A second installment of short stories, poems, artwork, essays and plays, Rush Hour: Bad Boys, edited by Michael Cart, offers 17 works about outsiders and the diverse roles they play. Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan contribute ""Andy Warhol: Prince of Pop,"" excerpted from their book of the same name (reviewed Oct. 25), cleverly paired with a b&w reproduction of Warhol's own Self-Portrait (Green) 1986; while Julia Jarcho's ""Nursery"" muses on what causes teens to kill. Other contributions include Robert Lipsyte's essay ""Surviving the Jock Culture"" and an excerpt from Jacqueline Woodson's as-yet-unpublished novel Grail, NY. .

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