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Stories told in poetry format
Middle School
A Lion's Hunger: Poems of First Love by Ann Warren Turner
All He Knew by Helen Frost
All the Broken Pieces by Ann Burg
Amiri & Odette by Walter Dean Myers
Booked by Kwame Alexander
Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Carver, A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
Escaping Tornado Season: A Story in Poems by Julie Williams
Frenchtown Summer by Robert Cormier
Hate That Cat by Sharon Creech
Heartbeat by Sharon Creech
House Arrest by K. A. Holt
I heart you, you haunt me by Lisa Schroeder
Inside out & back again by Thanhhai Lai
Jazmin's Notebook by Nikki Grimes
Jump Ball: A Basketball Season in Poems by Mel Glenn
Land of the Cranes by Aida Salazar
Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Loose Threads by Lorie Ann Grover
Love, Love by Victoria Chang
Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff
The Moon Within by Aida Salazar
One of those hideous books where the mother dies by Sonya Sones
Out of the dust by Karen Heese
Reaching for Sun by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer
Reckless, Glorious Girl by Ellen Hagan
Rebound by Kwame Alexander
The Red Pencil by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Rez Dogs by Joseph Bruchac
Running Back to Ludie by Angela Johnson
Sister Slam and the Poetic Motormouth Roadtrip by Linda Oatman High
Sold by Patricia McCormick
Solo by Kwame Alexander
Song of the Sparrow by Lisa Ann Sandell
Spinning Through the Universe: A Novel of Poems by Room 201 by Helen Frost
Split Image by Mel Glenn
Starfish by Lisa Fipps
Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy by Sonya Sones
Street Love by Walter Dean Myers
The Taking of Room 114: A Hostage Drama in Poems by Mel Glenn
The Trial by Jennifer Bryant
They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid’s Poems by David Bowles
Under the Broken Sky Mariko Nagai
Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
What About Will by Ellen Hopkins
What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones
What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones
Witness by Karen Heese
Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy
Zorgamazoo by Robert Paul Weston
High School
42 Miles by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer
A Bad Boy Can Be Good For a Girl by Tanya Lee Stone
After the Death of Anna Gonzales by Terri Fields
"After The Kiss" by Terra Elan McVoy
Aleutian Sparrow by Karen Hesse
All the Broken Pieces by Ann Burg
Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart by Williams, Vera B
The Apprentice’s Masterpiece: A Story of Medieval Spain by Melanie Little
Audition by Stasia Ward
Beanball by Gene Fahler
Because I am furniture by Chaltas, Thalia.
Becoming Billie Holiday by Carole Boston Weatherford
Becoming Joe Dimaggio by Maria Testa
Beowulf by Hinds, Gareth.
The best and hardest thing by Brisson, Pat.
The Braid by Helen Frost
The Brimstone Journals by Ron Koertge
Brushing Mom's Hair by Andrea Cheng
Burned by Ellen Hopkins
CrashBoomLove: A Novel in Verse by Juan Felipe Herrera
Crazy Man by Pamela Porter
Chasing Brooklyn by Lisa Schroeder
Cold Skin by Steven Herrick
Crossing Stones by Helen Frost
Dark Sons by Nikki Grimes
The Death of Jayson Porter by Jaime Adoff
EDDIE'S WAR by Carol Saller
Far from you by Lisa Schroeder
Fishtailing by Wendy Phillips
Foreign Exchange, A Mystery in Poems by Mel Glenn
Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem by Marilyn Nelson
The Geography of Girlhood by Kirstin Smith
A girl named Mister by Grimes, Nikki.
Girl Coming in for a Landing: a novel in poems by April Halprin Wayland
Glass by Ellen Hopkins
Glimpse by Carol Lynch Williams
God Went to Beauty School by Cynthia Rylant
Hawk, I'm your brother by Byrd Baylor
Heaven Looks A Lot Like The Mall by Wendy Mass
The House that Crack Built by Clark Taylor
Hugging the Rock by Susan Taylor Brown
Identical by Ellen Hopkins
I Don't Want to Be Crazy by Samantha Schutz
Jinx by Margaret Wild
Karma : a novel in verse by Ostlere, Cathy.
Kaleidoscope Eyes by Jen Bryant
Keesha's House by Helen Frost
Learning to Swim: A Memoir by Ann Turner
Love and Leftovers by Sarah Tregay
My Friend's Got This Problem, Mr. Candler by Mel Glenn
Nothing by Friedman, Robin.
North of Everything by Craig Crist-Evans
On Pointe by Lorie Ann Grover
One Night by Margaret Wild
Orchards by Holly Thompson
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Reaching for Sun by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer
The Realm of Possibility by David Levithan
The Red Pencil by Shane W. Evans
Ringside 1925 (Scope's trial) by Jen Bryant
Shakespeare Bats Cleanup by Ron Koertge
Shark girl by Kelly Bingham
Sister Slam and the Poetic Motormouth Road Trip by Linda Oatman High
Soda Jerk by Cynthia Rylant
Soul Moon Soup by Lindsay Lee Johnson
Splintering by Eireann Corrigan
Stardust 'Otel by Paul Janeczo
The Surrender Tree by Margarita Engle
T4: a novel in verse by Ann Clare LeZott
Things Left Unsaid: A Novel in Poems by Stephanie Hemphill
Trash by Sharron Darrow
The Trial (Lindburgh kidnapper) by Jen Bryant
Tropical Secrets by Margarita Engle
True Believer by Virginia Euwer Wolff
The Voyage of the Arctic Tern by Hugh Montgomery
Walking on glass by alma fullerton
The Way a Door Closes by Hope Anita Smith illustrated by Shane W. Evans
The Weight of the Sky by Lisa Ann Sandell
What is Goodbye by Nikki Grimes
Who Killed Mr. Chippendale? A Mystery in Poems by Mel Glenn
Wicked Girls by Hemphill
The Wolf by Steven Herrick
Worlds Afire by Paul Janeczko
You Remind Me of You by Eireann Corrigan
Your own, Sylvia : a verse portrait of Sylvia Plath / by Stephanie Hemphill
Death of Jayson Porter by Jaime Adoff
The geography of girlhood by Smith, Kirsten.
God Went to Beauty School by Cynthia Rylant
Grow by Juanita Havill
Hard Hit by Turner, Ann
Heaven looks a lot like the mall by Wendy Mass
Hidden by Frost, Helen.
Home of the brave by Katherine Applegate
Hugging the rock by Susan Taylor Brown
I’ll be watching by Pamela Porter
Jump ball: A basketball season in poems by Mel Glenn
"Naked bunyip dancing," "Love ghosts and facial hair," "A place like this," and "Cold skin" by Steven Herrick
Nothing by Robin Friedman
One night by Margaret Wild
On pointe by Lorie Ann Grover
One of those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies by Sonya Sones
"Planet pregnancy" by Linda Oatman High
Ringside 1925, views from the Scopes trial by Jen Bryant
Rubber houses by Ellen Yeomans
Seeing Emily by Joyce Lee Wong
Shakespeare Makes the Playoffs by Ronald Koertge
Shanghai messenger by Andrea Cheng
Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow
Song of the sparrow by Sandell, Lisa A.
Spinning through the universe by Helen Frost
T4 by Anne Clare Lazotte
Things left unsaid by Stephanie Hemphill
This full house by Virginia Euwer Wolff
Trash.by Darrow, Sharon.
Under the Weight of the Sky by Lisa Ann Sadnell
Vampire Haiku by Ryan Mecum
Walking on glass by Fullerton, Alma.
What is Goodbye? by Nikki Grimes
Where I live by Eileen Spinelli
Who Killed Mr. chippendale?: A Mystery in Poems by Mel Glenn
The Wolf by Steven Herrick
You are Not Here by Samantha Schutz
Zane's Trace by Allan Wolf
Zombie Haiku by Ryan Mecum
Biography in Verse
Engle, Margarita. The Poet-Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano
Engle,Margarita Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba
Nelson, Marilyn. Carver: A Life in Poems
Nelson, Marilyn. Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem
Smith Jr., Charles R. Twelve Rounds to Glory: the Story of Muhammad Ali
Weatherford, Carole Boston. Becoming Billie Holiday
Frida : viva la vida = long live life by Carmen T Bernier-Grand
José by Georgina Lázaro León; María Sánchez
The poet slave of Cuba : a biography of Juan Francisco Manzano by Margarita Engle; Sean Qualls
Our Abe Lincoln : an old tune with new lyrics by Jim Aylesworth; Barbara McClintock
Stephanie Hemphill. Your own, Sylvia : a verse portrait of Sylvia Plath.
Brown, Paul Wolf Pack of the Winisk River
Brown, Susan Taylor Hugging the Rock
Bryant, Jen Pieces of Georgia
Bryant, Jen The Trial
Bryant, Jen Kaleidoscope Eyes
Carvell, Marlene Who Will Tell My Brother?
Cheng, Andrea Brushing Mom's Hair
Cheng, Andrea Shanghai Messenger
Crilley, Mark Winter Crist-
Evans,Craig North of everything
Ellis, Ann Dee Everything Is Fine
Fields, Terri After the death of Anna Gonzales
Frost, Helen Keesha's house
Frost, Helen Spinning through the universe : a novel in poems from room 214
Frost, Helen Crossing Stones
Frost, Helen Diamond Willow
Fullerton, Alma Libertad
Grover, Lorie Ann Loose Threads
Grover, Lorie Ann On Pointe
Havill, Juanita Grow: A Novel in Verse
Hemphill, Stephanie Things Left Unsaid
Hemphill, Stephanie Wicked Girls
Herrick, Steven By the River
Janeczko, Paul B Worlds afire
Johnson, Lindsay Lee Soul Moon Soup
Koertge, Ronald Shakespeare Bats Cleanup
Koertge, Ronald Shakespeare makes the playoffs
Lenhard, Elizabeth Mall of the Universe
Lester, Julius A Day of Tears
LeZotte, Ann Clare T4
Na, An A Step From Heaven
Nelson,Marilyn Fortunes’ Bones
Neri, Greg Chess rumble
Ortiz Cofer, Judith Call me Maria : a novel
Porter, Pamela Paige Crazy Man
Rocklin, Joanne For Your Eyes Only
Russell, Ching Yeung Tofu Quilt
Rylant, Cynthia Soda jerk
Sandell, Lisa Ann Song of the Sparrow
Smith, Hope Anita Keeping the Night Watch
Smith, Hope Anita The Way A Door Closes
Spinelli, Eileen The Dancing Pancake
Testa, Maria Almost forever
Resources:
Elementary School
Never forgotten McKissack, Pat. 2011
Booked Alexander, Kwame. 2016
The crossover Alexander, Kwame. 2014
Finding wonders : three girls who changed science Atkins, Jeannine. 2016
Little Dog Lost by Bauer, Marion Dane 2012
Freedom over me : eleven slaves, their lives and dreams brought to life Bryan, Ashley. 2016
Serafina's promise Burg, Ann E. 2013
Unbound : a novel in verse Burg, Ann E. 2016
Mountain dog Engle, Margarita. 2013
Applesauce weather Frost, Helen.
Macy McMillan and the rainbow goddess Green, Shari. 2017
Garvey's choice Grimes, Nikki. 2016
Words with wings Grimes, Nikki 2013
Full cicada moon Hilton, Marilyn. 2015
Inside out & back again Lai, Thanhha. 2011
Looking for me Rosenthal, Betsy R. 2012
Red Butterfly by Sonnichsen, A. L 2015
Like Bug Juice on a Burger by Sternberg, Julie 2013
Like Carrot Juice on a Cupcake by Sternberg, Julie 2014
Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie by Sternberg, Julie 2013
Prince Puggly of Spud and the Kingdom of Spiff Weston, Robert Paul. 2013
Zorgamazoo Weston, Robert Paul. 2008
Gone camping : a novel in verse Wissinger, Tamera Will. 2017
Gone fishing : a novel in verse Wissinger, Tamera Will. 2013
TeachingBooks.net Elementary list compiled by Deborah Ford
“Novels In Verse: a pseudo-rondeau” by Karl G. Siewert posted to YALSABK
Novels in verse fulfill a need
For those who prefer a faster read.
A tale in prose can be a bore.
You read and read 'til your eyes are sore.
The poetic book gives you speed.
After you plod through a lengthy screed --
With words choking out, like a garden weed
The sense of the thing -- you need more
Novels in verse.
Novels are great, it must be agreed.
To write one's a difficult feat indeed.
But telling a story's a trickier chore
When rhythm and rhyme have been called for.
They're such beautiful things, when good writers succeed.