Novels in Verse

  • 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: Paperback
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: March 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 0358755328
    • Language: English
  • Wave

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    Winner of the Cybils Award for Poetry Novel, Diana Farid’s Wave is a coming-of-age novel in verse set in 1980s Southern California, about a Persian American girl who rides the waves, falls, and finds [more below]

    • Author: Farid, Diana
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: March 29 2022
    • ISBN10: 1951836588
    • Language: English
  • Lifeboat 12

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    “This page-turning true-life adventure is filled with rich and riveting details and a timeless understanding of the things that matter most.”–Dashka Slater, author of The 57 Bus
    “Brilliantly told in
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    • Author: Hood, Susan
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: September 04 2018
    • ISBN10: 1481468839
    • Language: English
  • The Watch That Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic

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    “A lyrical, monumental work of fact and imagination.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

    Arrogance and innocence, hubris and hope — twenty-four haunting voices of the Titanic tragedy, as well as the

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    • Author: Wolf, Allan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: March 26 2013
    • ISBN10: 076366331X
    • Language: English
  • Not a Soul But Us: A Story in 84 Sonnets

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    Winner of the 2021 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize!

    In mid-fourteenth century Yorkshire, the plague pandemic wipes out half the inhabitants of a remote village. Left behind is a twelve-year-old

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    • Author: Smith, Richard
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: March 18 2022
    • ISBN10: 0872333604
    • Language: English
  • Home Is Not a Country

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    LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

    “Nothing short of magic.” –Elizabeth Acevedo, New York Times bestselling author of The Poet X

    From the acclaimed poet featured on Forbes Africa’s “30 Under 30”

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    • Author: Elhillo, Safia
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: March 02 2021
    • ISBN10: 0593177053
    • Language: English
  • We Are All So Good at Smiling

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    They Both Die at the End meets The Bell Jar in this haunting, beautiful young adult novel-in-verse about clinical depression and healing from trauma, from National Book Award Finalist Amber McBride.

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    • Author: McBride, Amber
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: January 30 2024
    • ISBN10: 1250909384
    • Language: English
  • What about Will

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    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins comes a new heartbreakingly tender middle grade novel in verse about the bonds between two brothers and the love they share.

    Twelve-year-old Tra

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    • Author: Hopkins, Ellen
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: September 14 2021
    • ISBN10: 0593108647
    • Language: English
  • Nothing Burns as Bright as You

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    Five starred reviews!

    From New York Times bestselling author Ashley Woodfolk, Nothing Burns as Bright as You is an impassioned stand-alone tale of queer love, grief, and the complexity of female friend

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    • Author: Woodfolk, Ashley
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: April 05 2022
    • ISBN10: 0358655358
    • Language: English
  • A Time to Dance

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    Padma Venkatraman’s inspiring story of a young girl’s struggle to regain her passion and find a new peace is told lyrically through verse that captures the beauty and mystery of India and the ancient … [more below]

    • Author: Venkatraman, Padma
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: May 12 2015
    • ISBN10: 0147514401
    • Language: English
  • The Red Pencil

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    “Amira, look at me,” Muma insists.She collects both my hands in hers.“The Janjaweed attack without warning.If ever they come run.”
    Finally, Amira is twelve. Old enough to wear a toob, old enough for … [more below]

    • Author: Pinkney, Andrea Davis
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: September 16 2014
    • ISBN10: 0316247804
    • Language: English
  • The Magical Imperfect

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    Highly recommended… Perfect for readers of Wonder and Erin Entrada Kelly’s Hello, Universe.– Booklist magazine, starred review

    Etan has stopped speaking since his mother left. His father and grandf

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    • Author: Baron, Chris
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: June 15 2021
    • ISBN10: 1250767822
    • Language: English
  • Red Doc>

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    **New York Magazine’s Top 10 Books of 2013**
    **GoodReads Reader’s Choice Award Winner**

    Some years ago I wrote a book about a boy named Geryon who was red and had wings and fell in love with Herakles.

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    • Series: Vintage Contemporaries
    • Author: Carson, Anne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: March 11 2014
    • ISBN10: 0307950670
    • Language: English
  • All the Broken Pieces

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    An award-winning debut novel from a stellar new voice in middle grade fiction.

    Matt Pin would like to forget: war torn Vietnam, bombs that fell like dead crows, and the terrible secret he left behind. … [more below]

    • Author: Burg, Ann E.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: March 01 2012
    • ISBN10: 0545080932
    • Language: English
  • The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary

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    An award-winning, big-hearted time capsule of one class’s poems during a transformative school year. A great pick for fans of Margarita Engle and Eileen Spinelli.

    Eighteen kids,
    one year of poems,
    one

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    • Author: Shovan, Laura
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: April 10 2018
    • ISBN10: 0553521403
    • Language: English
  • The Ghosts of Rose Hill

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    A brilliantly original tale for fans of The Bear and the Nightingale and The Hazel Wood about embracing your power, facing your monsters, and loving deeply enough to transcend a century.

    Inspired by th
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    • Author: Romero, R. M.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: May 10 2022
    • ISBN10: 1682633381
    • Language: English
  • Eugene Onegin

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    Still the benchmark of Russian literature 175 years after its first publication–now in a marvelous new translation

    Pushkin’s incomparable poem has at its center a young Russian dandy much like Pushki

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    • Series: Penguin Classics
    • Author: Pushkin, Alexander
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: November 25 2008
    • ISBN10: 0140448101
    • Language: English
  • The Call-Out: A Novel in Rhyme

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    A fast-paced, debut tragicomedy of manners written in verse about queer (mostly trans) women that is funny, literary, philosophical, witty, sometimes bitchy and sometimes heartbreaking.

    Aashvi, Kate,

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    • Author: Fitzpatrick, Cat
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: October 25 2022
    • ISBN10: 1644212331
    • Language: English
  • Force of Nature: A Novel of Rachel Carson

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    A beautiful and hopeful story of how a young impassioned naturalist grows up to change the world. For everyone who cares about our fragile planet.

    “An absolute joy to read.” –Book Riot

    “Gracefully writ

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    • Author: Burg, Ann E.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: March 05 2024
    • ISBN10: 1338883380
    • Language: English
  • With the Fire on High

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    From the New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning title The Poet X comes a dazzling novel in prose about a girl with talent, pride, and a drive to feed the soul that keeps

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    • Author: Acevedo, Elizabeth
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: May 07 2019
    • ISBN10: 006266283X
    • Language: English
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