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Last Updated: March 2021

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NOVELS IN VERSE: Information and Reviews

A
ACEVEDO, Elizabeth
	The Poet X
ADOFF, Jamie
	Jimi and Me Names Will Never Hurt Me The Death Of Jayson Porter
AIN, Beth
	Izzy Kline Has Butterflies The Cure For Cold Feet
ALENE, Catherine
	The Sky Between You and Me
ALEXANDER, Goldie
	In Hades
ALEXANDER, Kwame
	Booked Rebound Solo Swing The Crossover
ANDERSON, Laurie Halse
	Shout
APEL, Kathryn
	Bully On The Bus On Track Too Many Friends
APPLEGATE, Katherine
	Home Of The Brave The One and Only Ivan
ARDELIUS, Gunnar
	I Need You More Than I Love You And I Love You To Bits
ATKINS, Jeannine
	Borrowed Names Finding Wonders Stone Mirrors
B
BATCHELOR, Melanie
	Remember Me
BATES, Dianne
	Nobody's Boy
BATESON, Catherine
	A Dangerous Girl His Name In Fire The Year It All Happened
BAUER, Marion Dane
	Little Cat's Luck Little Dog, Lost
BEAUVAIS, Clementine
	In Paris With You
BINGHAM, Kelly
	Formerly Shark Girl Shark Girl
BLACKMAN, Malorie
	Cloud Busting
BLOCK, Francesca Lia
	How To (Un)cage A Girl Psyche In A Dress
BODGER, Holly
	5 to 1
BREMEN, Melody J.
	Flying in a Cage
BRISSON, Pat
	The Best and Hardest Thing
BROWN, Paul
	Wolf Pack of the Winisk River
BROWN, Skila
	Caminar To Stay Alive
BROWN, Susan Taylor
	Hugging The Rock
BRYANT, Jen
	Pieces Of Georgia: a novel Kaleidoscope Eyes Ringside, 1925: views from the Scopes trial The Trial
BURG, Ann E.
	All The Broken Pieces Serafina's Promise Unbound
C
CALHOUN, Eva
	Eva of the Farm
CAMDEN, Steve
	Everything All At Once
CAMERON, Emma
	Cinnamon Rain Out Of This Place
CARVELL, Marlene
	Sweetgrass Basket Who Will Tell My Brother?
CHALTAS, Thalia
	Because I Am Furniture Displacement
CHENG, Andrea
	Brushing Mom's Hair Etched In Clay Shanghai Messenger Where The Steps Were
CHOYCE, Lesley
	Closing Down Heaven Jeremy Stone Thin Places
CLARK, Kristin Elizabeth
	Freak Boy
CLARK, Sherryl
	Farm Kid Motormouth Runaways Sixth Grade Style Queen (Not!)
COFER, Judith Ortiz
	Call Me Maria
COLLINS, Pat Lowery
	The Fattening Hut
CONNOR, Leslie
	Dead On Town Line
CORMIER, Robert
	Frenchtown Summer
CORRIGAN, Eireann
	Splintering You Remind Me Of You
CREECH, Sharon
	Hate That Cat Heartbeat Love That Dog Moo
CRISLER, Curtis L.
	Tough Boy Sonatas
CRIST-EVANS, Craig
	Moon Over Tennessee North Of Everything
CROSSAN, Sarah
	Moonrise One The Weight Of Water We Come Apart [with Brian CONAGHAN]
CROWDER, Melanie
	Audacity
CROWE, Chris
	Death Coming Up The Hill
D
DARROW, Sharon
	Trash
DAVIDSON, Jessica
	What Does Blue Feel Like?
DEAN, Carolee
	Forget Me Not
DONWERTH-CHIKAMATSU, Annie
	Somewhere Among
DURANGO, Julia
	Under The Mambo Moon
E
ECKERMANN, Ali Cobby
	His Father's Eyes
ELLIOTT, David
	Bull
ELLIOTT, Zetta
	Bird
ELLIS, Amy
	Fault
ELLIS, Ann Dee
	This Is What I Did:
ENGLE, Margarita
	Enchanted Air Forest World Hurricane Dancers Jazz Owls Lion Island Morning Star Horse Mountain Dog Silver People Soaring Earth The Firefly Letters The Lightning Dreamer The Poet Slave Of Cuba The Surrender Tree The Wild Book Tropical Secrets
F
FARISH, Terry
	The Good Braider
FEHLER, Gene
	Beanball
FENSHAM, Elizabeth
	Goodbye Jamie Boyd
FIELDS, Terri
	After The Death Of Anna Gonzales
FORD, Christine
	Scout
FRANK, Lucy
	Two Girls Staring At The Ceiling
FRIEDMAN, Robin
	Nothing
FRIER, Raphaele
	Angela and the Cherry Tree
FROST, Helen
	Applesauce Weather Crossing Stones Diamond Willow Hidden Keesha's House Room 214 Salt The Braid
FULLERTON, Alma
	Burn In The Garage Libertad Walking On Glass
G
GEORGE, Kristine O'Connell
	Swimming Upstream
GLENN, Mel
	Foreign Exchange Jump Ball Split Image The Taking Of Room 114 Who Killed Mr. Chippendale?
GODWIN, Jane
	The True Story Of Mary
GREEN, Shari
	Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles
GRIMES, Nikki
	A Dime A Dozen A Girl Named Mister Bronx Masquerade Dark Sons Garvey's Choice Planet Middle School What Is Goodbye? Words With Wings
GROVER, Lorie Ann
	Hold Me Tight Loose Threads On Pointe
H
HARRINGTON, Janice N.
	Catching a Storyfish Going North
HATHORN, Libby
	Volcano Boy
HAVILL, Juanita
	Grow
HAWTHORNE, Susan
	Bird
HEEDE, Sylvia Vanden
	Wolf and Dog
HEMPHILL, Stephanie
	Hideous Love Sisters Of Glass Things Left Unsaid Wicked Girls Your Own, Sylvia
HEPPERMANN, Christine
	Ask Me How I Got Here
HERRERA, Juan Felipe
	Cinnamon Girl CrashBoomLove Downtown Boy Skate Fate
HERRICK, Steven
	A Place Like This Another Night In Mullet Town By The River Cold Skin Do-Wrong Ron Kissing Annabel Lonesome Howl / The Wolf Love Ghosts and Nose Hair / Love, Ghosts & Facial Hair Love Poems and Leg Spinners My Life, My Love, My Lasagne Naked Bunyip Dancing Pookie Aleera Is Not My Boyfriend The Simple Gift The Spangled Drongo Tom Jones Saves The World Untangling Spaghetti
HESSE, Karen
	Aleutian Sparrow Out Of The Dust The Cats In Krasinski Square Witness
HIGH, Linda Oatman
	A Heart Like Ringo Starr Otherwise Planet Pregnancy Sister Slam and the Poetic Motormouth Road Trip Teeny Little Grief Machines That Selfie Girl
HILTON, Marilyn
	Full Cicada Moon
HOLBROOK, Sara
	More Than Friends [with Allan WOLF]
HOLT, K. A.
	House Arrest Rhyme Schemer
HOPKINS, Ellen
	Burned Crank Fallout Glass Identical Impulse People Kill People Perfect Rumble Smoke The You I've Never Known Tilt Traffick Tricks
HOPKINS, Lee Bennett
	Been To Yesterdays
HOSSEINI, Khaled
	Sea Prayer
HOWE, James
	Addie On The Inside
I
J
JAMES, Rory
	Some Girls Bind
JANECZKO, Paul B.
	Requiem Stardust Otel Worlds Afire
JASKULKA, Marie
	The Lost Marble Notebook of Forgotten Girl & Random Boy
JEFFS, Sandy
	Poems From The Madhouse
JENKINS, A. M.
	Beating Heart
JENSEN, Cordelia
	Skyscraping The Way The Light Bends
JOHNSON, Angela
	Running Back To Ludie The Other Side
JOHNSON, J. J.
	Believarexic
JOHNSON, Lindsay Lee
	Soul Moon Soup
JUDGE, Lita
	Mary's Monster
K
KEARNEY, Meg
	The Girl In The Mirror The Secret Of Me
KEHOE, Stasia Ward
	Audition The Sound Of Letting Go
KERNOT, Sharon
	The Art of Taxidermy
KOERTGE, Ron
	Coaltown Jesus Lies Knives and Girls In Red Dresses Shakespeare Bats Cleanup Shakespeare Makes The Playoffs The Brimstone Journals
KROLL, Jeri
	Vanishing Point
KUDERICK, Madeleine
	Kiss of Broken Glass
L
LAI, Thanhha
	Inside Out & Back Again
LAIDLER, James
	The Taste Of Apple
LANGMEAD, Oliver
	Dark Star
LASKIN, Pamela L.
	Ronit & Jamil
LAWRENCE, Katherine
	Stay
LEAVITT, Martine
	My Book Of Life By Angel
LEVITHAN, David
	The Realm Of Possibility
LEVY, Debbie
	The Year of Goodbyes
LEW, Craig
	Breath To Breath
LEZOTTE, Anne Clare
	T4
LITTLE, Melanie
	The Apprentice's Masterpiece
LOWERY, Linda
	Laurie Tells
LOWITZ, Leza
	Up From The Sea
LUCIDO, Aimee
	In The Key Of Code
LYONS, Stefanie
	Dating Down
M
MACDONALD, Maryann
	Odette's Secrets
MACLEAN, Jill
	Nix Minus One
MAHON, Kate
	Just One Tear
MAJOR, Kevin
	Ann and Seamus
MAK, Kam
	My Chinatown
MARCUS, Kimberly
	Exposed
MARWOOD, Lorraine
	Leave Taking Ratwhiskers and Me Star Jumps
MASS, Wendy
	Heaven Looks A Lot Like The Mall
MAZER, Norma Fox
	What I Believe
McCALL, Guadalupe Garcia
	Under The Mesquite
McCORMICK, Patricia
	Sold
McCULLOUGH, Joy
	Blood Water Paint
McKISSACK, Patricia
	Never Forgotten
McVOY, Terra Elan
	After The Kiss
MERRELL, Billy
	Talking In The Dark Vanilla
MONTGOMERY, Hugh
	The Voyage Of The Arctic Tern
MORGAN, Sally
	Sister Heart
MURPHY, Sally
	Pearl Verses The World Roses Are Blue Toppling / John and Dom
MYERS Lily
	This Impossible Light
MYERS, Walter Dean
	Amiri & Odette Here In Harlem Street Love
N
NAGAI, Mariko
	Dust of Eden
NELSON, Marilyn
	A Wreath For Emmett Till Carver Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem How I Discovered Poetry
NERI, G.
	Chess Rumble
NEWMAN, Leslea
	October Mourning
O
ORGILL, Roxane
	Siege
OSTLERE, Cathy
	Karma
OSTOW, Micol
	Family
P
PATTOU, Edith
	Ghosting
PHILLIPS, Linda Vigen
	Crazy
PHILLIPS, Wendy
	Fishtailing
PIGNAT, Caroline
	The Gospel Truth
PINKNEY, Andrea Davis
	The Red Pencil
PORTER, Pamela
	I'll Be Watching The Crazy Man
POWELL, Patricia Hruby
	Loving vs Virginia
PRENDERGAST, Gabrielle
	Audacious Capricious
Q
R
REYNOLDS, Jason
	Long Way Down My Name Is Jason. Mine Too. [with Jason GRIFFIN]
RICHARDS, Jame
	Three Rivers Rising
ROSE, Caroline Starr
	Blue Birds May B.
ROSEN, Michael J.
	Running With Trains
ROSENBERG, Liz
	17
ROSENTHAL, Betsy R.
	Looking For Me
ROTH, Judith L.
	Serendipity & Me
ROWE, Dr. Leanne
	Girl_X Recreated
ROY, Jennifer
	Yellow Star
RUSSELL, Ching Yeung
	Tofu Quilt
RYLANT, Cynthia
	Boris God Got A Dog God Went To Beauty School Ludie's Life Soda Jerk
S
SALIBA, Sue
	Alaska For The Forest Of A Bird
SALLER, Carol Fisher
	Eddie's War
SANDELL, Lisa Ann
	Song Of The Sparrow The Weight Of The Sky
SAVAGE, Sam
	The Criminal Life Of Effie O.
SAVVIDES, Irini
	Against The Tide
SCHREUDER, Matthew
	Muscle
SCHROEDER, Lisa
	All We Have Is Now Chasing Brooklyn Far From You I Heart You, You Haunt Me The Day Before
SCHUTZ, Samantha
	I Don't Want To Be Crazy You Are Not Here
SEABROOKE, Brenda
	Judy Scuppernong Under The Pear Tree
SHAHAN, Sherry
	Purple Daze
SHERRARD, Valerie
	Counting Back From Nine
SHOVAN, Laura
	The Last Fifth Grade Of Emerson Elementary
SINCLAIR, Tim
	Nine Hours North Run
SMITH Jr, Charles R.
	Stars In The Shadows
SMITH, Hope Anita
	Keeping The Night Watch Mother Poems The Way A Door Closes
SMITH, Kirsten
	The Geography Of Girlhood
SONES, Sonya
	One Of Those Hideous Books Where The Mother Dies Stop Pretending To Be Perfectly Honest Saving Red The Opposite of Inncocent What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know What My Mother Doesn't Know
SONNICHSEN, A. L.
	Red Butterfly
SPINELLI, Eileen
	Another Day As Emily Summerhouse Time The Dancing Pancake Where I Live
STERNBERG, Julie
	Like Bug Juice On A Burger Like Pickle Juice On A Cookie Like Carrot Juice On A Cupcake
STEVENS, Roger
	The Journal Of Danny Chaucer (Poet)
STONE, Miriam
	At The End Of Words
STONE, Tanya Lee
	A Bad Boy Can Be Good For A Girl
STVIL, Lola
	Girls Like Me
SUTTON Kelsey
	The Lonely Ones
SWIFT, Kristy-Lee
	It's Your World
T
TAYLOR, Michelle A.
	The Angel Of Barbican High
TERRY, Ellie
	Forget Me Not
TESTA, Maria
	Almost Forever Becomming Joe DiMaggio Something About America
THOMPSON, Holly
	Falling Into The Dragon's Mouth Orchards The Language Inside
THOMS, Annie (editor)
	With Their Eyes
TREGAY, Sarah
	Love & Leftovers
TURNER, Ann
	A Lion's Hunger Hard Hit Learning To Swim
U
V
VAN, Sandi
	Second In Command
VAN CLEAVE, Ryan G.
	Unlocked
VENKATRAMAN, Padma
	A Time To Dance
W
WALRATH, Dana
	Like Water On Stone
WAYLAND, April Halprin
	Girl Coming In For A Landing
WEATHERFORD, Carole Boston
	Becoming Billie Holiday Dear Mr Rosenwald Voice Of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, spirit of the civil rights movement You Can Fly
WEBER, Lori
	Yellow Mini
WHIPPLE, Laura
	If The Shoe Fits
WILD, Margaret
	Jinx One Night
WILLIAMS, Carol Lynch
	Glimpse
WILLIAMS, Julie
	Escaping Tornado Season
WILLIAMS, Vera B
	Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart
WILSON, Kip
	White Rose
WISSINGER, Tamera Will
	Gone Camping Gone Fishing
WIVIOTT, Meg
	Paper Hearts
WOLF, Allan
	More Than Friends [with Sara HOLBROOK] New Found Land The Watch That Ends The Night Who Killed Christopher Goodman? Zane's Trace
WOLFF, Virginia Euwer
	Make Lemonade This Full House True Believer
WONG, Janet S.
	Behind The Wheel Minn and Jake Minn and Jake's Almost Terrible Summer
WONG, Joyce Lee
	Seeing Emily
WOODSON, Jacqueline
	Brown Girl Dreaming Locomotion
X
Y
YAXLEY, Richard
	Drink The Air
YEOMANS, Ellen
	Rubber Houses
YOLEN, Jane
	Finding Baba Yaga
YU, Chun
	Little Green
Z
ZIMMER, Tracie Vaughn
	42 Miles Reaching For Sun

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