National Poetry Month 2025 - Books for Teens and Young Adults

Updated March 26, 2025
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National Poetry Month 2025 - Books for Teens and Young Adults

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Abuela, don't forget me
Ogle, Rex
Audiobook
I say, "Te amo siempre." And she says, "I love you more." And I say, "Impossible." Abuela, Don't Forget Me is Rex Ogle's portrait of his grandmother, the one adult he could count on when he was a child--and who is now forgetting him as dementia...
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
Gansworth, Eric
Paper Book
PRINTZ HONOR AWARD NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST A moving memoir-in-verse that chronicles one Native teenager's search for belonging  The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on...
Black girl you are Atlas
Watson, Ren?
Paper Book
A Coretta Scott King Honor Book Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renee Watson. In this semi-autobiographical collection of poems, Renee Watson writes about her experience...
Bless the blood : a cancer memoir
Nehanda, Walela
Paper Book
A searing debut YA poetry and essay collection about a Black cancer patient who faces medical racism after being diagnosed with leukemia in their early twenties, for fans of Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals and Laurie Halse Anderson's Shout. When Walela is...
How the boogeyman became a poet
Keith, Anthony R., Jr.
Paper Book
Big Mouth ARE mailing to a curated list of influential librarians and educators  Teens' Top 10/YALSA ARE mailing to teen reading groups across the country Announcement Advertising in key school & library media W24 Group Announcement ad in Booklist, Nov. print...
Inheritance : a visual poem
Acevedo, Elizabeth
Paper Book
Big Mouth ARE mailing to a curated list of influential librarians and educators Teens' Top 10/YALSA ARE mailing to 15 teen reading groups across the country Advertising in key school & library media, such as School Library Journal, The Horn Book and Booklist ...
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,...
Poemhood: Our Black Revival : History, Folklore & the Black Experience: a Young Adult Poetry Anthology
Mcbride, Amber/ Martin, Erica/ Byas, Taylor/ Ashwin Writing, Llc (COR)
Paper Book
Launch and lead promotion at school & library conferences and preview events (virtual and in-person) Featured title in Shake Up Your Shelves, a campaign to promote inclusive texts in curriculum, library collections, and in bookstores  Featured title in Edelweiss...
The snow fell three graves deep : voices from the Donner party
Wolf, Allan
Paper Book
In powerful, vivid verse, the master behind The Watch That Ends the Night recounts one of history's most harrowing--and chilling--tales of survival. In 1846, a group of emigrants bound for California face a choice: continue on their planned route or take a...
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