novels in verse

Sara, a high school junior, leaves her life and loved ones behind to move to a new city and stay with a host family after winning a coveted scholarship to study ballet, and though she finds comfort in the arms of Rem, a choreographer in his early twenties, she begins to think he might be using her, and a budding interest in writing makes her question whether ballet is the future she really wants.

Imaginative and adventurous Katrina eludes her maniacal guardian to help Morty, a member of a vanishing breed of zorgles, with his quest to uncover the fate of the fabled zorgles of Zorgmazoo as well as of other creatures that seem to have disappeared from the Earth.

Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.

"Newbery Medalist Cynthia Rylant and two-time Caldecott Honor medalist Marla Frazee imagine a God inspired to go out and experience human things"--Provided by publisher.

A free-verse novel about the Gothic novelist Mary Shelley, a teenager whose love story led her to write the literary masterpiece, Frankenstein.

Free-verse reveals true stories behind well-known fairy tales, some reset in modern times, as a strung-out match girl sells CDs to drug users, Little Red Riding Hood admits that she wanted to know what it is like to be swallowed whole, and Cinderella's stepsisters are duped.

The lives of three women, each experiencing a mid-life crisis, intersect in a powerful lesson of friendship, betrayal, and forgiveness. Holly, a stay-at-home mom, loses weight and embarks on an affair; Andrea, a single mom looking for a decent man, can't ignore Holly's husband; and Marissa faces multiple challenges in her life without her workaholic husband.

A novel in verse which follows the thoughts and frustrations of Becca and Camille, both involved with Alec, as they go through their final semester of high school.

Twelve-year-old Eva writes beautiful poems on the farm in Washington State that her family has owned for generations, but when money runs out and then her baby brother gets sick, the family faces foreclosure and the way of life she loves is threatened.

Living with their mother who earns money as a prostitute, two sisters take care of each other and when the older one attempts suicide, the younger one tries to uncover the reason.