An Appetite for Miracles
With the help of her cousin and their friends, Danna scours the city, searching for her grandfather’s favorite foods and hoping the remembered flavors will bring back his memories.
Teen Novels in Verse for National Poetry Month
We’re celebrating National Poetry Month with a curated list of some of our favorite novels in verse for teens. Novels in verse are works of fiction that are written in poetic verse rather than traditional prose, which allows the author to combine engaging narratives with the lyricism and emotion of poetry. This stylistic approach is well-suited to teen fiction, where highly emotional explorations of heartbreak, self-discovery, and overcoming adversity are further enhanced by the vulnerability and candor of poetic verse. If you’re looking for stories with real emotional impact and truly memorable storytelling, consider one of the noteworthy novels in verse below.
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Ariel Crashes a Train
Ariel grapples with her fear of her own mind and violent fantasies, until a summer job at a carnival leads her to new friends who help her discover her struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder and find acceptance and support for her true self.
Bright Red Fruit
An unflinching, honest novel in verse about a teenager’s journey into the slam poetry scene and the dangerous new relationship that could threaten all her dreams.
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Chlorine Sky
Picked on at home, criticized for talking trash while beating boys at basketball, and always seen as less than her best friend, a girl struggles to like and accept herself.
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Clap When You Land
Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people … In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal’s office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance – and by their father’s secrets – the two must lean on each other to navigate a new reality in which their father is dead and their lives are forever altered.
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Forever is Now
When sixteen-year-old Sadie, a Black bisexual recluse, develops agoraphobia the summer before her junior year, she relies on her best friend, family, and therapist to overcome her fears.
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Light Enough to Float
When fourteen-year-old Evie is diagnosed with anorexia, she begins the slow process of recovery with the help of caregivers and peers who are battling their own disordered-eating habits.
Sunrise Nights
When aspiring photographer Jude and former dancer Florence, who has a degenerative eye disease, meet at their sleepaway camp’s closing celebration, called Sunrise Night, they decide to take a chance with one rule—they can’t contact each other after the sun has risen.
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Ultraviolet
Thirteen-year-old Elio is struggling with “coming of age”–first love, first heartbreak, first real fight (which lands him in the hospital), and what it means to be a “man,” a true friend, and an ally, as well as how to overcome a culture of toxic masculinity.
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Where the Heart Should Be
1846, Ireland. In the wake of failed potato crops and widespread starvation, 16-year-old Nell’s job as a scullery maid in the Big House is the only thing keeping her family fed. When she meets John Browning, the young English heir to the lord of the house, and sparks fly, Nell must find a way to keep their forbidden love secret while also keeping her loved ones alive.
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