National Poetry Month 2025 - Books for Teens and Young Adults

Updated March 26, 2025
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Ain't burned all the bright
Reynolds, Jason
Paper Book
A Caldecott Honor winner! Prepare yourself for something unlike anything: A smash-up of art and text for teens that viscerally captures what it is to be Black. In America. Right Now. Written by #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds....
Apple : skin to the core : a memoir in words and pictures
Gansworth, Eric
Ebook
National Book Award Longlist TIME's 10 Best YA and Children's Books of 2020 NPR's Best Book of 2020 Shelf Awareness's Best Books of 2020 Publishers Weekly's Big Indie Books of Fall Amazon's Best Book of the Month AICL Best YA Books of 2020 CSMCL Best...
Enter the body
McCullough, Joy
Paper Book
A SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * Shakespeare's most tragic heroines find new voices in this compelling novel-in-verse for young adults. "Radically creative . . . This provocative book could inspire all kinds of fresh approaches to the plays, not to mention lots...
Louder than hunger
Schu, John
Paper Book
A New York Times bestseller! A Schneider Family Book Award Honor Book "Every so often a book comes along that is so brave and necessary, it extends a lifeline when it's needed most. This is one of those books." --Katherine Applegate, author of the Newbery Medal-winning,...
Poems for tortured souls
Ison, Liz
Paper Book
Dear Reader, these poems are an introduction to the passionate words of some of the English language's most renowned poets. Inspired by today's greatest lyricist, Taylor Swift, this collection overflows with folklore, love, heartache, revenge and peace - the perfect balm for any tortured soul.
We are all so good at smiling
McBride, Amber
Paper Book
They Both Die at the End meets The Bell Jar in this haunting, beautiful young adult novel-in-verse about clinical depression and healing from trauma, from National Book Award Finalist Amber McBride. Whimsy is back in the hospital for treatment of...
You don't have to be everything : poems for girls becoming themselves
Whitney, Diana (EDT)/ Gonzalez, Cristina (ILT)/ Mockford, Kate (ILT)/ Singleton, Stephanie (ILT)
Paper Book
Poems to Turn to Again and Again - from Amanda Gorman, Sharon Olds, Kate Baer, and More   Created and compiled just for young women, You Don't Have to Be Everything is filled with works by a wide range of poets who are honest,...

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