novels in verse

When Allison runs away from her abusive father, she finds herself taking shelter in a shed behind an abandoned home. Allison soon discovers the house isn't abandoned, and an old woman named Marla who has dementia lives there. Mistaking Allison for an old friend named Toffee, Marla welcomes Allison into her home, and a friendship between the two blossoms. The two fill a hole in each other's hearts, but Allison begins to wonder how long she can keep pretending.

Project Apogee had one mission: to create biologically engineered perfect teenagers. The teenagers were supposed to be expressions of a perfect genetic mapping of traits, an example of the New Human. But when the teens go before the project committee, they are found to be utterly normal and unremarkable, a disappointment. Then there's Alex, the lost teen who failed years ago, who might just be the most remarkable of them all.

In this novel told in verse, a young woman named June, who is overweight, keeps her eating disorder hidden from everyone. Then Toby, the boy next door, finds out about June's secret. At first she is panicked, but then she learns that Toby has a secret, too. Soon June will have to choose between lies and keeping secrets, and finding the strength and courage to stand up for herself.

"Susie is jealous when her brother is deemed a town hero, so she finds solace in the poetry and reclusive lifestyle of Emily Dickinson"--Provided by publisher.

Collects five stories about three girls and two boys who question how they feel about themselves while learning about love and sexuality.

Sent to Japan for the summer after an eighth-grade classmate's suicide, half-Japanese, half-Jewish Kana Goldberg tries to fit in with relatives she barely knows and reflects on the guilt she feels over the tragedy back home.

Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart.

In early twentieth-century Cuba, bandits terrorize the countryside as a young farm girl struggles with dyslexia. Based on the life of the author's grandmother.

Sixteen-year-old Celestia is a wealthy member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, where she meets and falls in love with Peter, a hired hand who lives in the valley below, and by the time of the torrential rains that lead to the disastrous Johnstown flood of 1889, she has been disowned by her family and is staying with him in Johnstown. Includes an author's note and historical timeline.

A variety of students at the same high school describe their ideas, experiences, and relationships in a series of interconnected free verse stories.