High, Linda Oatman

A novel in verse about a teenage girl dealing with alienation at school, a father in the county jail, a chain-smoking stepmom, a brother trapped in his own autistic world, and a sibling's death.

Thirteen-year-old Wheezie spends the summer on a farm where she deals with her learning-disabled cousin, her uncle's death in Vietnam, and her parents' impending divorce.

A fictionalized account, told in free-verse poems, of a young girl's experience living through the 1888 "Great Blizzard" in New York City.

Recounts the life story of Fido, a gentle, yellow dog who loved, and was loved by, Abraham Lincoln and his family.

Sixteen-year-old Sahara struggles with an unplanned pregnancy, and all its conflicting emotions, in this novel told in free verse.

Cool Bopper plays the golden bold baritone saxophone at the Snazzy Catz Jazz Club, but when he loses his choppers, he loses his song.

A young girl helps her grandfather tend his bee hives one morning in spring.

A young girl helps her grandfather tend his bee hives one morning in spring.

Living with her grandfather on Muckwater Mountain in West Virginia, twelve-year-old Silver aggressively pursues her dream of having a dog by working to earn the money for one.

A collection of poems that chronicle a year in the life of an Amish or Mennonite community in Pennsylvania Dutch Country.