Ronald Koertge

Free-verse reveals true stories behind well-known fairy tales, some reset in modern times, as a strung-out match girl sells CDs to drug users, Little Red Riding Hood admits that she wanted to know what it is like to be swallowed whole, and Cinderella's stepsisters are duped.

Lies, Knives, and Girls in Red Dresses

Larry, Teresa, and Elliot, three troubled high school seniors who plan to run away together from Illinois to California after graduation, try to figure out who they are and who they want to be. Reprint.

Boy Girl Boy

A troubled youth with cerebral palsy struggles toward self-acceptance with the help of a drug-addicted young woman.

Stoner & Spaz

Recently orphaned, sixteen-year-old Ted O'Connor is sent to a foster home

Strays

Sleepwalking through life since his younger sister died of cancer two years earlier, Ryan finds reasons to start living his life when he begins visiting a beautiful classmate who falls into a coma after a riding accident.

Deadville

Praying for help after the sudden death of his brother, Walker is astonished by the appearance of an irreverent Jesus in his bedroom who imparts unexpected strength and comfort while helping him understand some of life's biggest questions.

Coaltown Jesus

In a series of short interconnected poems, students at a high school nicknamed Brimstone reveal the violence existing and growing in their lives. Jr Lib Guild. Reprint.

The Brimstone Journals

Margaux, known as a "tough chick" at her Los Angeles high school, makes a connection with Danny, who, like her, struggles with the emotional impact of family violence and abuse.

Margaux with an X

When a fourteen-year-old baseball player catches mononucleosis, he discovers that keeping a journal and experimenting with poetry not only helps fill the time, it also helps him deal with life, love, and loss.

Shakespeare Bats Cleanup

In Making Love to Roget's Wife, Ron Koertge offers his best work from twenty-three years and a dozen earlier collections. With twenty-five new poems, and over eighty from previous books, this selection reawakens us to the presence of a superbly honed comic voice.

Making Love to Roget's Wife (c)

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Boogeyman

Larry, Teresa, and Elliot, three troubled high school seniors who plan to run away together from Illinois to California after graduation, try to figure out who they are and who they want to be.

Ronald Koertge

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