Poisoned apples : poems for you, my pretty /

"Christine Heppermann's powerful collection of free verse poems explore how girls are taught to think about themselves, their bodies, their friends--as consumers, as objects, as competitors. Based on classic fairy tale characters and fairy tale tropes, the poems range from contemporary ret...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Heppermann, Christine (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Greenwillow Books, [2014]
Subjects:	Poetry > Juvenile literature. Teenage girls > Juvenile poetry. Fairy tales > Juvenile poetry. Children's poetry, American. Self-realization > Juvenile poetry. Self-acceptance > Juvenile poetry. Conduct of life > Juvenile poetry. JUVENILE NONFICTION > Girls & Women. JUVENILE NONFICTION > Poetry > General. JUVENILE NONFICTION > Social Issues > General (see also headings under Family) Conduct of life. Fairy tales. Poetry. Self-acceptance. Self-realization. Teenage girls. Juvenile works.

Table of Contents:

The woods
The never-ending story
The wicked Queen's legacy
Abercrombie dressing room
Sleeping Beauty's wedding day
Photoshopped poem
Prince Charming
A brief history of feminism
Suburban legends
The first anorexic
A Shape Magazine fiary tale
Retelling
BFF
Blow your house in
"Mannequins make me feel like a failure"-Claudia age 13
If tampons were for guys
The giant's daughter at spring formal
The anorexic eats a salad
A witch's disenchantment
"Sweet nothings"
Weight watchers
To my sheep, whatever you are
First semester haiku
Vindictive punctuation
The elves and the anorexic
Runaway
You go, girl
Thumbelina's get-tiny cleanse-tested
The little mermaid
Health class
ugly stepsister
Transformation
Boy toy villanelle
Rapunzel
Light as a feather, stiff as a board
Nature lesson
Red-handed
Finders, keepers
Gingerbread
What she heard the waitress say
Going under
Life among the swans
Big bad spa treatment
Human centipede two
Spotless
The beast
Bird girl
Assassin
View from the balcony
Pink champagne.