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Although Mora lauds the "intensity of the teen years" in her author's note, the adolescent narrators of these poems about relationships lost, found, and longed for speak in voices that are sometimes too restrained or muted to be entirely convincing. Still, the collection--a mix of free verse and formal poetry; of English sprinkled with Spanish--has an inviting, tender feel.