Hemphill, Stephanie

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The language of fire

Joan of Arc reimagined
2019
A free-verse novel about Joan of Arc, a teenager during the fifteenth century who commanded an army and helped crown a king of France.
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Your own, Sylvia

[a verse portrait of Sylvia Plath]
The author interprets the people, events, influences and art that made up the brief life of Sylvia Plath.
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Things left unsaid

a novel in poems
After a lifetime of conforming to the image of what her parents and high school friends want her to be, Sarah must come to terms with her own identity when her destructive best friend tries to commit suicide. Told in the form of free-verse poems.

Sisters of glass

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.
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Your own, Sylvia

2007
A series of poems that provide a chronological portrait of the life of Sylvia Plath, told in the voices of family members, friends, associates, and others who knew her.

Wicked Girls

A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials
2013
A fictionalized account, told in verse, of the Salem witch trials, told from the perspective of three of the real young women living in Salem in 1692 -- Mercy Lewis, Margaret Walcott, and Ann Putnam, Jr.

Your own, Sylvia

a verse portrait of Sylvia Plath
2007
A series of poems that provide a chronological portrait of the life of Sylvia Plath, told in the voices of family members, friends, associates, and others who knew her.

Hideous love

the story of the girl who wrote Frankenstein
2013
A free-verse novel about the Gothic novelist Mary Shelley, a teenager whose love story led her to write the literary masterpiece, Frankenstein.

Your own, Sylvia

a verse portrait of Sylvia Plath
2008
With photographs and an extensive list of facts and sources, a collection of poems captures the story of the life, personal struggles, and suicide of this celebrated author.

Things left unsaid

a novel in poems
2007
After a lifetime of conforming to the image of what her parents and high school friends want her to be, Sarah must come to terms with her own identity when her destructive best friend tries to commit suicide. Told in the form of free-verse poems.

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