April is National Poetry Month! Lately, I've enjoyed exploring more novels in verse. Here are some I've read (young adult/YA and middle grade/MG) in case you're looking for titles. And if I've missed your favorites, please mention them in the comments!
Next week, Lisa Fipps, author of Starfish, will be guest posting with some tips for writing your own novel in verse.
Next week, Lisa Fipps, author of Starfish, will be guest posting with some tips for writing your own novel in verse.
Novels In Verse
- Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough (YA)
- Booked by Kwame Alexander (MG)
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (MG, memoir)
- The Crossover by Kwame Alexander (MG)
- Forget Me Not by Ellie Terry (MG)
- Hate That Cat by Sharon Creech (MG)
- The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary by Laura Shovan (MG)
- Love That Dog by Sharon Creech (MG)
- One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies by Sonya Sones (YA)
- Ordinary Hazards by Nikki Grimes (Adult, memoir)
- Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga (MG)
- Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (MG)
- The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (YA)
- Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson (YA, memoir)
- Skyscraping by Cordelia Jensen (YA)
- Sold by Patricia McCormick (YA)
- Starfish by Lisa Fipps (MG)
- Turtle Under Ice by Juleah Del Rosario (YA)
- When My Sister Started Kissing by Helen Frost (MG)
- White Rose by Kit Wilson (YA)
- Wishes, Dares, & How to Stand Up to a Bully by Darlene Beck Jacobson (MG)
This week's links:
Sign up for a free poem a day delivered to your inbox.
Find daily poetry prompts for April at NaPoWriMo and from Kelli Russell Agodon.
The National Council of Teachers of English has compiled a 2021 list of Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels (for children ages 3–13).
Sign up for a free poem a day delivered to your inbox.
Find daily poetry prompts for April at NaPoWriMo and from Kelli Russell Agodon.
The National Council of Teachers of English has compiled a 2021 list of Notable Poetry Books and Verse Novels (for children ages 3–13).
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