The poems in this collection should strike a chord with young people. It includes poems about snogging, drink and drugs, families and friendship. The poems are categorized by theme to aid classroom discussion around particular topics. This book should be a useful source of material for discussion in Personal, Social and Health Education at Key Stage 3 and 4.

 

This book is suitable for Key Stage 3. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks.

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Hachette Children's Group .

Andrew Fusek Peters is Britain's tallest poet. He travels the country visiting schools with his weird and wonderful poems, plays and digeridu and juggles a bit. Andrew lives in an old chapel in Shropshire with his wife and young daughter. Polly Peters is a former English and Drama teacher. She was previously Head of Drama at a sixth form college and currently works as a youth/community theatre leader, director and playwright.