Novels in Verse

  • Keesha’s House

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    An unforgettable narrative collage told in poems

    Keesha has found a safe place to live, and other kids gravitate to her house when they just can’t make it on their own. They are Stephie – pregnant, tr

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    • Author: Frost, Helen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: January 08 2013
    • ISBN10: 0312641273
    • Language: English
  • The Bones of Me

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    The go-to mystery thriller to cozy up with this season, for fans of YA gems like Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo and The Crossover by Kwame Alexander. Told in dynamic verse and prose!

    “The com

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    • Author: Duckhouse, Kel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: October 04 2022
    • ISBN10: 1914343034
    • Language: English
  • Alas Salvajes (Wings in the Wild)

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    Ahora disponible in español!

    Los seres alados han de ser libres.

    Y también lo han de ser los artistas, pero el gobierno cubano ha criminalizado cualquier arte que no tenga su aprobación. Soleida y

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    • Author: Engle, Margarita
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: April 18 2023
    • ISBN10: 1665927704
    • Language: Spanish
  • Three Things I Know Are True

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    Fans of Jandy Nelson and Marieke Nijkamp will love this deeply moving novel in verse about the aftermath of a gun accident.

    Life changes forever for Liv when her older brother, Jonah, accidentally shoo

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    • Author: Culley, Betty
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: January 07 2020
    • ISBN10: 0062908022
    • Language: English
  • Baby Teeth

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    A YA verse novel about LGBTQ+ desire, identity — and vampires.

    From the multi-award winning author of The Deepest Breath (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021), a Junior Library Guild Selection.

    The blood
    Fe

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    • Author: Grehan, Meg
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: September 05 2023
    • ISBN10: 1912417901
    • Language: English
  • Heaven Looks a Lot Like the Mall

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    When 16-year-old Tessa suffers a shocking accident in gym class, she finds herself in heaven (or what she thinks is heaven), which happens to bear a striking resemblance to her hometown mall. In the t

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    • Author: Mass, Wendy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: November 01 2008
    • ISBN10: 0316058505
    • Language: English
  • Dear Medusa

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    This searing and intimate novel in verse follows a sixteen-year-old girl coping with sexual abuse as she grapples with how to reclaim her story, her anger, and her body in a world that seems determine[more below]

    • Author: Cole, Olivia a.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: March 12 2024
    • ISBN10: 0593485769
    • Language: English
  • The Poet X

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    Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpr? Award!

    Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for th

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    • Author: Acevedo, Elizabeth
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 380
    • Publish Date: December 06 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798885794190
    • Language: English
  • Dark Sons

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    A guy whose father ripped his heart out too.

    You and me, Ishmael, we’re brothers, two dark sons.

    Destroyed, lost, and isolated, the perspectives of two teenage boys–modern-day Sam, and biblical Ishmae

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    • Author: Grimes, Nikki
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: January 03 2017
    • ISBN10: 0310761506
    • Language: English
  • Rima’s Rebellion: Courage in a Time of Tyranny

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    An inspiring coming-of-age story told in prose and “spare, lyrical” verse (The Horn Book Magazine) from award-winning author Margarita Engle about a girl falling in love for the first time while findi[more below]

    • Author: Engle, Margarita
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: February 15 2022
    • ISBN10: 1534486933
    • Language: English
  • Light Enough to Float

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    Deeply moving and authentic, this debut novel in verse follows teenage Evie through her eating disorder treatment and recovery―a perfect choice for readers of Wintergirls and Louder Than Hunger.[more below]

    • Author: Seal, Lauren
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: October 08 2024
    • ISBN10: 0593700147
    • Language: English
  • Trigger

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    An unflinching verse novel about a teenage boy who is sexually assaulted in an attack he struggles to remember by the award-winning author of Gut Feelings

    Jay wakes in a park, beaten and bruised. He c

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    • Author: Moore, C. G.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: September 10 2024
    • ISBN10: 1915071534
    • Language: English
  • Baby Teeth

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    From the multi-award winning author of The Deepest Breath (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021), a Junior Library Guild Selection, comes a YA verse novel about LGBTQ+ desire, identity — and vampires.

    The

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    • Author: Grehan, Meg
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: July 19 2022
    • ISBN10: 1915071011
    • Language: English
  • Tu Corazón, Mi Cielo (Your Heart, My Sky): El Amor En Los Tiempos del Hambre

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    Inspirada por las dificultades de sus propios parientes durante un per?odo oscuro de la historia de Cuba, la aclamada autora Margarita Engle cuenta “un doloroso y conmovedor” (la revista Horn Book) re[more below]

    • Author: Engle, Margarita
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: April 19 2022
    • ISBN10: 1534482172
    • Language: Spanish
  • Finding Baba Yaga

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    Finding Baba Yaga is a mythic yet timely novel-in-verse by the beloved and prolific New York Times bestselling author and poet Jane Yolen, “the Hans Christian Andersen of America” (Newsweek).

    A young

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    • Author: Yolen, Jane
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: October 30 2018
    • ISBN10: 1250163870
    • Language: English
  • Tu Corazón, Mi Cielo (Your Heart, My Sky): El Amor En Los Tiempos del Hambre

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    Inspirada por las dificultades de sus propios parientes durante un período oscuro de la historia de Cuba, la aclamada autora Margarita Engle cuenta “un doloroso y conmovedor” (la revista Horn Book) r[more below]

    • Author: Engle, Margarita
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: April 19 2022
    • ISBN10: 1534482180
    • Language: Spanish
  • Junk Boy

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    Bestselling author Tony Abbott’s YA novel-in-verse is an unflinching and heartbreaking look at a boy’s junk-filled life, and the ways he finds redemption and hope, perfect for fans of The Crossover an

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    • Author: Abbott, Tony
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: October 13 2020
    • ISBN10: 0062491253
    • Language: English
  • Hidden

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    When Wren Abbott and Darra Monson are eight years old, Darra’s father steals a minivan. He doesn’t know that Wren is hiding in the back. The hours and days that follow change the lives of both girls.

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    • Author: Frost, Helen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: January 20 2015
    • ISBN10: 1250056845
    • Language: English
  • When We Make It

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    “The energy. The clarity. The beauty. Elisabet Velasquez brings it all. . . . Her voice is FIRE!”–NYT bestselling and award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson

    An unforgettable, torrential, and hopeful

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    • Author: Velasquez, Elisabet
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: September 21 2021
    • ISBN10: 059332448X
    • Language: English
  • The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin

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    A fascinating historical novel about Hilde, an orphan who experiences Berlin on the cusp of World War II as she discovers her own voice and sexuality, ultimately finding a family when she gets a job a

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    • Author: Wilson, Kip
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: March 29 2022
    • ISBN10: 0358448905
    • Language: English
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