You Don't Even Know Me
Stories and Poems about Boys

This book had a great narrative way to tell stories and poems about boys. She focuses on the issues that teenage boys go through or could be exposed to like AIDS, heartbreak, pregnancy and family break-ups. She talks about how they handle it and how they feel when things like that happen. Guys have......more

Sharon Flake has great narrative voice. No question. But what makes her books so significant is the subject matter. She's just plain writing about stuff no one else is writing about. Like wanting to hook up with an older woman or trying to help out a 9-year-old who knows more about the streets than......more

Crystal Hansen, LS 538. Flake, S. G. (2010). You don't even know me: Stories and poems about boys. New York: Jump at the Sun. Genre: Short Stories. Print book. Selected from Books and Authors database. Highly recommend. From a female perspective, it's hard to say whether this (also female) author ac......more

This book is a book that combines poems and stories of different African american boys. I didn't really enjoy this book much but I only read some stories and finished it anyways but read the poems. I only enjoyed Two-Kaye's story. It was about him getting married at seventeen years old and his girlf......more

This was a very good book! I would recommend it to any middle or high school boy. Girls will like it, but I feel guys would get a better understanding from this book. It is written in a man’s perspective; it connects with a boy reader. The poems in this story consist of problems in everyday life. To......more