Skin Deep and Other Teenage Reflections

Offering a powerful-but-playful portrait of urban teens - especially teens of colour - this collection of poetry is at once rife with contemporary issues as well as the timeless challenges of high school. Whether focusing on topics such as troubled families, racism in the streets, and depression or boy-girl obsession, sports triumphs, and personal achievement, Angela Shelf Medearis writes with wry humour and a direct honesty.