Class Dismissed!

by Mel Glenn

In these 70 poems, noted young adult author Mel Glenn opens a window onto the raw inner lives of high school students. You may meet yourself in these poems. Or your friends. Or those kids you pass in the halls but whose names you don't know.

This collection, by an author considered by many to have invented the young adult verse novel, offers a mirror to teens who are sure to recognize aspects of their own experience in its verse portraits, and who may emerge inspired to record their own authentic experiences in poetry.

CLASS DISMISSED has been named an ALA Best of the Best Book and earned a Golden Kite Honor award from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.

Starred review, Booklist
"English instructor Mel Glenn has captured some of the worse and best about being a teenager...laced with touches of humor and poignancy."

Terry Lesesne, Writers for Young Adults - The Poetry Zone
"Glenn manages to capture the voices of real-life teens, their problems, their hopes, their dreams, their frustrations and their deepest feelings."

Literature for Today's Young Adults, 2nd edition, Kenneth L. Donelson and Alleen Pace Nilson
"Mel Glenn is the poet who more than anyone pioneered the poetry genre for young readers."

78 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 4, 2011