novels in verse

Fifteen-year-old Forgotten Girl copes with her parents' breakup and her mom's depression by writing poetry. When she meets Random Boy, a handsome teen struggling with his father's physical abuse who also writes poetry, the two bond and begin to trade poems through a shared composition notebook. As they grow close, it becomes clear that both Forgotten Girl and Random Boy are in danger of repeating their parents' mistakes with one another.

Escaping from Nazi Germany to Cuba in 1939, a young Jewish refugee dreams of finding his parents again, befriends a local girl with painful secrets of her own, and discovers that the Nazi darkness is never far away.

A novel in verse about Faith Hope Stevens who is mad because she knows she will never grow old or a have a boyfriend because she needs a heart transplant, until one day everything changes.

In 1940, a group of British children, their escorts, and some sailors struggle to survive in a lifeboat when the ship taking them to safety in Canada is torpedoed. Includes historical notes.

In 1940, a group of British children, their escorts, and some sailors struggle to survive in a lifeboat when the ship taking them to safety in Canada is torpedoed. Includes historical notes.

Snub is a young female gorilla, somewhat jealous because her mother is occupied with a new baby, curious of the world around her, a world that is being reshaped by shaking ground and mountains that bleed fire, and most terrifyingly by a new form of predator that walks on two legs; when her mother is killed Snub finds herself in charge of her baby brother--and accompanied by one of the not-gorillas, a very young female who has been orphaned by the violence of her own kind.

Told in assonant free verse, Levi was once a premature baby who suffered from respiratory problems; he recovered, and now in seventh grade, he struggles to demonstrate to his divorced mother and overprotective brother that he is okay--so when his father suggests he take up boxing he falls in love with the sport, but he still must find a way to convince his family to set him free to follow his dream.

Two years after being airlifted out of Vietnam in 1975, Matt Pin is haunted by the terrible secret he left behind and, now, in a loving adoptive home in the United States, a series of profound events forces him to confront his past.

A verse novel in which fifteen-year-old Ava, feeling guilty over the role she believes she played in her boyfriend Jackson's death, experiences a whole new range of emotions when she realizes he is back from the dead.

Told in verse, quiet Nix is the polar opposite of his older sister Roxy, Nix feels powerless to protect Roxy from the toxic guy she is interested in, but finds he can protect Twig, a neglected dog.