Check out episodes 1 & 2. In episode 2 Tim Gunn meets with the teens to critique their work.

Anti-Prom Rocks the Library in Vanity Fair

Video Games @ Astor Hall in the NY Times

Numbers

by Brian Adams, 17

Numbers dancing erotically
in my head,
looking, searching
for a partner,
a soul mate
to replace the void,
to replace the variable,
to complete the puzzle,
to answer the question,
giving a solution, and
easing the succession
of the infinite journey
that lies ahead.
 

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by Pete Hautman
In the last years of the twenty-first century, 16-year old Bo is sentenced to a prison factory in the Arctic to make fast-food pizzas. His one hope of leaving the assembly line is to make the illegal prison football team.

Fly On The Wall

by E. Lockhart
Gretchen wishes that she was a fly on the wall in the boy’s locker room and her wish is granted.

by Sharon Draper
Fifteen-year old girls Amari, and Polly; one a slave, the other an indentured servant, escape their Carolina Plantation to try to reach the safety of Fort Mose a sanctuary for slaves.

Do you ever feel like you are the only one? The only one who feels like you do, who wants what you want, who thinks about what you think about. That is just how the teens in these books feel: Just Visiting This Planet . Maybe you can relate.

Avi
Joan Bauer
New!Tonya Bolden
Judy Blume
Meg Cabot
Andrew Clements
Sharon Creech
Chris Crutcher
Christopher Paul Curtis
Kate DiCamillo
Sharon Draper
New! Dan Ehrenhaft: Listen to our Teen Advisory Group interview(Program 7)
Sharon G. Flake
Jean Craighead George
Ann M. Martin
Walter Dean Myers
Gary Paulsen
Gary Soto
Jacqueline Woodson

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