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Novels in Verse
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Frost, Helen
Keesha's House
It's really Joe's house but Keesha, just a teen herself, helps other kids who have too many hurdles in their lives. However long they stay, they know they are safe here.
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Grimes, Nikki
Bronx Masquerade
In a mix of poetry and prose Grimes gives voice to 18 urban teens, all looking for ways to survive and even thrive in a challenging world.
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Koertge, Ron
Shakespeare Bats Clean Up
Kevin is home with mononucleosis. That means a couple months of resting before he can go back to playing baseball, and baseball is his life. In the meantime, he starts to experiment with poetry.
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Mack, Tracy
Birdland
Haunted by the death of his older brother, 14-year-old New York City-native Jed spends his winter break filming a documentary of his neighborhood as recorded in his brother's journals and poems.
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Smith, Kirsten
The Geography of Girlhood
Penny has a crush on her sister's boyfriend, a friend who is acting weird and a new stepbrother. More than anything, she wanted to get out of her small town where "nothing ever happens / and if it does / all the things with wings / fly away."
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Sones, Sonya
one of those hideous books where the mother dies
Ruby is determined not to like her "scumbag" dad, a famous actor. She's never even met him and now she's moving all the way to California to live with him-that's 3000 miles away from her best friend, Lizzie, and her boyfriend, Ray. And her dead mom's grave. She's fifteen, funny, and very feisty.
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Wild, Margaret
Jinx
Her real name is Jen but, after two of her boyfriends die, everyone starts calling her Jinx. And then she falls in love for the third time...
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Wolff, Virginia Euwer
Make Lemonade
Money for college is her motivating factor, but LaVauhghn falls in love with the kids she is babysitting. She becomes enmeshed the lives of her two little charges and their 17 year old mom, wanting to make things better for all of them.
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List updated by Gwen, January 2007.
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