Novels in Verse (YA)

Poems are short things, often tiny
Written with precision and great pain
Imagine a novel written in poetry

Embrace this ancient form’s fantasy
Try something interesting, out of your domain
Poems are short things, often tiny
Imagine a novel written in poetry

Updated August 11, 2024
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Wellington City Libraries Youth team at Wellington City Libraries
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The Black Flamingo : a novel
Atta, Dean
Paper Book
Featured title in HarperStacks Pride Campaign
Home is not a country
Elhillo, Safia
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD * A CORETTA SCOTT KING HONOR BOOK * A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK OF THE CENTURY "Nothing short of magic." --Elizabeth Acevedo, New York Times bestselling author of The Poet X From the ...
Punching the air
Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Paper Book
Lead promotion at conferences and events Targeted outreach to college professors, teachers, and librarians Featured author at 2021 Walter Awards Featured author at Harris County Library Battle of the Books Featured author at Troy Athens High...
Swing
Alexander, Kwame
CD
Things usually do not go as planned for seventeen-year-old Noah. He and his best friend Walt (aka Swing) have been cut from the high-school baseball team for the third year in a row, and it looks like Noah's love interest since fifth grade, Sam, will never take it past the best friend zone. Noah...
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King, A. S.
Paper Book
A surreal and timely novel about the effects of isolation and what it means to be connected to the world from the Printz Award-winning author of Dig. Time has stopped. It's been June 23, 2020 for nearly a year as far as anyone can tell. Frantic adults demand...

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