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Advance praise for
    POISONED
APPLES
    â€œOver and over again, Christine Heppermann’s poems reveal the worm in the messages young women get about love, sex, food, and bodies. These poems cast a harrowing but irresistible disenchantment.”
    â€”Sara Zarr, author of National Book Award finalist Story of a Girl
    â€œHeppermann’s collection of teen angst is like a velvet bag full of gems to be poured out into the palm, held up to the light, studied, and saved to be brought out again and again on fitting occasions.”
    â€”Karen Hesse, author of Newbery Medal–winning Out of the Dust
    â€œThe fairy tale path, dirt and cobblestone, weaves through a dark wood. The fast shiny freeway of now zooms past where the woods used to be. Sometimes the path and the freeway intersect. Sometimes they are the same road. Christine Heppermann’s amazing poems come from each of these places. They are moving, mind-bending, sad, and ambivalent poems. But they are also really funny and, in the end, triumphant.”
    â€”Lynne Rae Perkins, author of Newbery Medal–winning Criss Cross
    â€œThis powerful and provocative exploration of body image, media, and love broke my heart and made me gasp aloud with its relentless truth. Dark, unsettling, and altogether brilliant.”
    â€”Rae Carson, author of New York Times –bestselling The Girl of Fire and Thorns
    â€œAnyone can read these wonderful poems, but I know women and girls especially will open Poisoned Apples and immediately tell their friends, show their friends, loan the book out, get it back, read it again and again until the cover falls off.”
    â€”Ron Koertge, author of the acclaimed Stoner & Spaz
    â€œChristine Heppermann writes with a brilliant wizard’s pen. If redemption comes to us in stunning, sidelong ways, via metaphor, parallel thinking, reshaped tales with new characters who might be us, this is a book that will save. Not only you, but so many people you know. Take a look.”
    â€”Naomi Shihab Nye, author of National Book Award finalist 19 Varieties of Gazelle
    â€œ Poisoned Apples is simply phenomenal. Heppermann’s honest voice grabs the reader with urgency. This collection is a champion for teens and adults who see our world as an advertisement for perfection that doesn’t exist. Readers will want to read these poems aloud over and over again.”
    â€”A. S. King, author of Printz Honor book Ask the Passengers
    â€œA bloody poetic attack on the beauty myth that’s caustic, funny, and heartbreaking.”
    â€”E. Lockhart, author of National Book Award finalist The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

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    P OISONED APPLES : Poems for You, My Pretty. Copyright © 2014 by Christine Heppermann. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced
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    EPub Edition March 2014 ISBN 9780062341549
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