YA Novels in Verse Novels in verse, or verse novels, are novels that filter the devices of fiction through the medium of poetry. There is usually a large cast, multiple voices, dialogue, narration, description, and action written in a novelistic manner, but through the form of poetry.

Adoff, Arnold Glenn, Mel Johnson, J. J. Roots and Blues Split Image: a story in poems Be·liev·a·rex·ic Adoff, Jaime Who Killed Mr. Chippendale?: Koertge, Ronald The Death of Jayson Porter a mystery in poems Coaltown Jesus Alexander, Kwame Grimes, Nikki Levithan, David Crossover Series Bronx Masquerade The Realm of Possibility 1. Crossover Grover, Lorie Ann Levitt, Martine 2. Rebound Loose Threads Coaltown Jesus He Said, She Said Hemphill, Stephanie Madsen, Cindi Solo Things Left Unsaid All the Broken Pieces Swing Wicked Girls: A Novel of Marcus, Kimberly Anderson, Laurie Halse— the Salem Witch Trials Exposed (YA 92 ANDERSON) Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse McCall, Guadelupe Garcia Shout Portrait of Sylvia Plath Under the Mesquite Atkins, Jeannine Heppermann, Christine McCormick, Patricia Stone Mirrors: The Sculpture Poisoned Apples: Poems for Sold and Silence of Edmonia Lewis You, My Pretty McCullough, Joy Bingham, Kelly Herrick, Steven Blood Water Paint Shark Girl The Wolf McVoy, Tera Elan Block, Francesca Lia Hopkins, Ellen After the Kiss How To (Un)cage a Girl Identical Myers, Walter Dean Cisneros, Sandra Rumble Amiri and Odette The House on Mango Street The You I’ve Never Known Street Love Clark, Kristin Elizabeth People Kill People Nelson, Marilyn Freakboy Series How I Discovered Poetry Cormier, Robert 1. Crank Newman, Lesléa Frenchtown Summer 2. Glass October mourning: a song for Corrigan, Eireann 3. Fallout Matthew Shepard Splintering Burned Series Ostlere, Cathy Crowder, Melanie 1. Burned Karma Audacity 2. Smoke Pattou, Edith Darrow, Sharon Series Ghosting Trash 1. Impulse Powell, Patricia Hruby Dean, Carolee 2. Perfect Loving Vs. Virginia: a Forget Me Not Tricks Series Documentary Novel of the Del Rosario, Juleah 1. Tricks Landmark Civil Case 500 Words or Less 2. Traffick Reynolds, Jason Elliot, David Triangles Series Long Way Down Bull 1. Triangles Richards, Jame Voices: The Final Hours 2. Tilt Three Rivers Rising: a Novel of Joan of Arc Hubbard, Jenny of the Johnstown Flood Engle, Margarita And We Stay Rylant, Cynthia Hurricane Dancers: the First Janeczko, Paul B. God Went to Beauty School Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck Worlds Afire Sandell, Lisa Ann The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Jaskulka, Marie Song of the Sparrow Greatest Abolitionist The Lost Marble Notebook Schroeder, Lisa Frost, Helen of Forgotten Girl and All We Have is Now Crossing Stones Random Boy Shusterman, Neal Hidden Jensen, Cordelia Bruiser Skyscraping

3201 Rogers Avenue | Fort Smith, AR | 479-783-0229 | www.fortsmithlibrary.org Novels in Verse Novels in verse, or verse novels, are novels that filter the devices of fiction through the medium of poetry. There is usually a large cast, multiple voices, dialogue, narration, description, and action written in a novelistic manner, but through the form of poetry.

Sones, Sonya One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies To Be Perfectly Honest Stop Pretending: What Happened when My Big Sister went Crazy What My Mother Doesn’t Know Series 1. What My Mother Doesn’t Know 2. What My Girlfriend Doesn’t Know Stone, Tanya Lee A Bad Boy Can be Good for a Girl Terry, Ellie Forget Me Not Terry, Farish The Good Braider Venkatraman, Padma A Time to Dance Walrath, Dana Like Water on Stone Wayland, April Halprin Girl Coming in for a Landing Weatherford, Carole Boston Becoming Billie Holiday Wolf, Allan The Watch that Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic Wolff, Virginia Euwer Make Lemonade Trilogy 1. Make Lemonade 2. True Believer 3. This Full House

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