novels in verse

"This enchanting novel in verse captures one woman's struggle for equality, independence, and identity as a Greek immigrant in troubled 1930s America"--Provided by the publisher.

Tells the story of Sophie Scholl, a young German college student who challenges the Nazi regime during World War II as part of the White Rose, a non-violent resistance group.

Picked on at home, criticized for talking trash while beating boys at basketball, and always seen as less than her best friend, a girl struggles to like and accept herself.

"Sixteen-year-old Maggie is pulled from her high school after her mother begins dating a member of a small 'forward-thinking' group led by a man who proclaims secret knowledge of life and death. Maggie begins homeschooling at the group's compound, where she is educated in their cult beliefs. As the group's leader becomes progressively unhinged, and her mother becomes more connected to the cult, Maggie must rescue her mother and other cult members from a horrific fate before it is too late"--Provided by the publisher.

Twelve-year-old G?ero, a red-headed, freckled Mexican American border kid, discovers the joy of writing poetry, thanks to his seventh grade English teacher.

"When Brooke, Eva, Nate, and Jay take a nighttime sail off the Florida coast, they never imagine that their lives are about to change forever. Shipwrecked by a storm at sea, the teenagers become castaways on an island that seems designed to test their very natures. Faced with loss, trauma, and the harsh reality of day-to-day survival, will they find the strength to confront their inner demons and escape the Vanishing Place? Or are mysterious forces at work to keep them stranded for all time?"--Provided by the publisher.

ZJ's friends Ollie, Darry and Daniel help him cope when his father, a beloved professional football player, suffers severe headaches and memory loss that spell the end of his career.

Told from different points of view--protesters, students, National Guardsmen, and "townies"--recounts the story of what happened at Kent State in May 1970, when four college students were killed by National Guardsmen, and a student protest was turned into a bloody battlefield.

In 1939 six-year-old Henry, who is deaf, is taken from his family and placed in a home for the feeble-minded where, years later, his friends include a conscientious objector serving there during World War II. Includes historical notes.

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.