novels in verse

Follows teenager Helen White, who moves with her mother to be with her mother's new boyfriend, going from a middle-class neighborhood to an Indian reservation, where among her new school's 200 kids she is the only one with white skin. She is lonely until she meets King, a dangerous boy who soon twists Helen into breaking molds and behaviors she has always followed.

In this novel in verse, teen Jamie has a secret--she binds her chest every day to feel less like a girl. She questions why she feels drawn to do this, why she can't tell her friends, and if she could be genderqueer.

Osmel's dreams of becoming a meteorologist are shattered when he discovers that he is undocumented. His fears grow when his father is arrested by ICE. Fearful of how others will react, he tells only his school counselor, and tries to deal with his anxiety alone.

High school junior Page and her two best friends start out by telling the little lies that are part of everyday life: white lies to avoid insulting friends and fibs to avoid unwanted judgment from classmates. As they lie more and more, the lies escalate into half-truths about parties told to their parents and become more dangerous.

Zeke would love to be invisible since his mother struggles to make ends meet and they live with her no-good boyfriend. When he gets a job at a pizza place to earn some extra money, he meets labor activists who want to give him a voice and a living wage. Zeke has to decide between trying to be invisible or letting his voice be heard.

In the summer of 1988, twelve-year-old Chuck Bell is sent to stay with his grandparents, where he discovers jazz and basketball and learns more about his family's past.

A young woman named June, who is overweight, keeps her eating disorder hidden from everyone. Then Toby, the boy next door, finds out about June's secret. At first she is panicked, but then she learns that Toby has a secret, too. Soon June will have to choose between lies and keeping secrets, and finding the strength and courage to stand up for herself.

While serving a community service sentence for young offenders, a Romanian immigrant boy and a troubled British girl fall in love.

"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?"--Amazon.com.

Josh Bell has a talent for composing raps, and he and his twin brother Jordan are kings of the basketball court. But when the twins' close relationship begins to unravel under the strain of changes in their lives, the brothers realize life isn't always about winning.