novels in verse

A year after a shark attack causes the amputation of her right arm, sixteen-year-old Jane struggles to make a career choice and deal with family changes, along with her first real romance.

Ever since Walker's older brother Noah died, his mother has not been able to stop crying. Walker has questions for God, angry questions, wondering why if God really wanted to help him that he let Noah die in the first place. Walker is shocked when his prayer for help is answered with the arrival of Jesus himself, who seems a bit less reverent than Walker was expecting.

In free verse, evokes the voice of Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, a book-loving writer, feminist, and abolitionist who courageously fought injustice in nineteenth-century Cuba. Includes historical notes, excerpts from her writings, biographical information, and source notes.

Presents in verse the story of Maria who wishes to become a glassblower but her father will not allow it and is instead given the responsibility of marrying into nobility. A new young glassblower arrives on the island of Murano and when Maria is drawn to him, her already existing web of emotions becomes even more complicated.

In a series of connected prose vignettes, Illinois farm boy Eddie Carl is forced to grow up quickly when his brother, Thomas, leaves to fly a bomber during World War II. Left beind, Eddie falls for red-headed Sarah and struggles to help a gypsy friend wrongly accused of arson.

"Sara and her father start to heal from her mother's death when a white kitten lands on their doorstep"--Provided by publisher.

In 1936 Baltimore, an eleven-year-old Jewish girl, one of twelve siblings, tries to find her place in her overcrowded family.

Bird, an artistic young African American boy, expresses himself through drawing as he struggles to understand his older brother's drug addiction and death, while a family friend, Uncle Son, provides guidance and understanding.

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.

As her 13th birthday nears, JoEllen decides to unite her two separate lives--one as Joey, who enjoys weekends with her father, and another as Ellen, who lives with her mother in Cincinnati near school and friends.