An anthology all about love. Somehow these young authors are far more mature on the subject than many adults. Love takes many forms. Some authors write of their love for their parents or pets, others write of their love of music or shoes. And most importantly, some authors write of loving themselves.

— Simon Traub-Epstein, International Library of Young Authors

From the publisher: “The work contained in this anthology has been collected over the past year of in-school and afterschool workshops. It contains poems and thoughts on love scribbled out by second graders from the UT Elementary School. It contains a nearly unrelenting catalog of best and worst dates, both real and imagined. It contains heartbreaking letters to loved ones lost, to loved ones disappointed, letters that are full of sorrow and humor, regret and promise written by young men and women from the Turman Halfway House and the Hays County Juvenile Detention Center. It contains a recipe for Heartbreak Lemon Cookies and a Rude Pizza Pie, and instructions on how to be a good brother and a love letter (in Spanish) from a father who longs to change his ways to his daughter, whom he fears has too much the character of her father. It is a powerful and silly and unsettling and hopeful book, in other words, because, what else is love, young love or old love, but silly and unset-tling, hopeful and powerful? And it is our sincere hope that within these pages you find something to love.”