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Poetry Rocks!
Try these novels in verse form

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Adoff, Jaime.
Names Will Never Hurt Me.
Students tell about school, themselves and events as they unfold on the 1-year anniversary of the killing of a fellow student.
(YA Fic)

Collins, Pat Powery.
The Fattening Hut.
A teenage girl living on a tropical island runs away to escape her tribe's customs of arranged marriages and female genital mutilation.
(YA Fic)

Frost, Helen.
The Braid.
Two Scottish sisters, living on the western island of Barra in the 1850s, relate, in alternate voices and linked narrative poems, their experiences after their family is forcible evicted and separated with one sister accompanying their parents and younger siblings to Cape Breton, Canada, and the other staying behind with other family on the small island of Mingulay.
(YA Fic)

Glenn, Mel.
The Taking of Room 114: A Hostage Drama in Poems.
School officials, parents, police and a class of seniors are taken hostage by their history teacher.
(YA Fic M)

Grimes, Nikki.
Bronx Masquerade.
While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx school read aloud their poems, revealing their thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates.
(YA Fic)

Hemphill, Stephanie.
Things Left Unsaid.
After a lifetime of conforming to the image of what her parents and high school friends want her to be, Sarah must come to terms with her own identity when her destructive best friend tries to commit suicide.
(YA Fic)

Herrick, Steven.
The Simple Gift.
16-year-old Billy runs away from his alcoholic father, lives in an abandoned freight train, falls in love with a rich girl, and ultimately learns the meaning of family.
(YA Fic)

Hopkins, Ellen.
Crank.
Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter, gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. On a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul - her life.
(YA Fic)

Johnson, Lindsay Lee.
Soul Moon Soup.
After her father leaves and Phoebe and her mother struggle to survive in the city, Phoebe finally goes to the country to live with her grandmother, where she learns family secrets and hopes her mother will return for her.
(YA Fic)

Koertge, Ron.
Shakespeare Bats Cleanup.
When a 14-year-old baseball player catches mono, he discovers that keeping a journal and experimenting with poetry not only helps fill the time, it also helps him deal with life, love, and loss.
(YA Fic)

Ortiz, Cofer, Judith.
Call Me Maria.
15-year-old Maria leaves her mother and their Puerto Rican home to live in the barrio of New York with her father, feeling torn between the two cultures in which she has been raised.
(YA Fic)

Sones, Sonya.
One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies.
15-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother's grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born.
(YA Fic)

Wild, Margaret.
One Night.
A teenaged girl decides to have her baby and care for it on her own after a "one night stand" results in pregnancy.
(YA Fic)

Williams, Julie.
Escaping Tornado Season: A Story in Poems.
Poems describe how thirteen-year-old Allie, living with her grandparents in a small Minnesota town in the 1960s, struggles to cope with her father's recent death, being abandoned by her mother, and trying to fit in at school.
(YA Fic)

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5/24/06
Duluth Public Library, 520 W. Superior St., Duluth, MN 55802

	Adoff, Jaime. Names Will Never Hurt Me. Students tell about school, themselves and events as they unfold on the 1-year anniversary of the killing of a fellow student. (YA Fic)
	Collins, Pat Powery. The Fattening Hut. A teenage girl living on a tropical island runs away to escape her tribe's customs of arranged marriages and female genital mutilation. (YA Fic)
	Frost, Helen. The Braid. Two Scottish sisters, living on the western island of Barra in the 1850s, relate, in alternate voices and linked narrative poems, their experiences after their family is forcible evicted and separated with one sister accompanying their parents and younger siblings to Cape Breton, Canada, and the other staying behind with other family on the small island of Mingulay. (YA Fic)
	Glenn, Mel. The Taking of Room 114: A Hostage Drama in Poems. School officials, parents, police and a class of seniors are taken hostage by their history teacher. (YA Fic M)
	Grimes, Nikki. Bronx Masquerade. While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx school read aloud their poems, revealing their thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates. (YA Fic)
	Hemphill, Stephanie. Things Left Unsaid. After a lifetime of conforming to the image of what her parents and high school friends want her to be, Sarah must come to terms with her own identity when her destructive best friend tries to commit suicide. (YA Fic)
	Herrick, Steven. The Simple Gift. 16-year-old Billy runs away from his alcoholic father, lives in an abandoned freight train, falls in love with a rich girl, and ultimately learns the meaning of family. (YA Fic)
	Hopkins, Ellen. Crank. Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter, gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. On a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul - her life. (YA Fic)
	Johnson, Lindsay Lee. Soul Moon Soup. After her father leaves and Phoebe and her mother struggle to survive in the city, Phoebe finally goes to the country to live with her grandmother, where she learns family secrets and hopes her mother will return for her. (YA Fic)
	Koertge, Ron. Shakespeare Bats Cleanup. When a 14-year-old baseball player catches mono, he discovers that keeping a journal and experimenting with poetry not only helps fill the time, it also helps him deal with life, love, and loss. (YA Fic)
	Ortiz, Cofer, Judith. Call Me Maria. 15-year-old Maria leaves her mother and their Puerto Rican home to live in the barrio of New York with her father, feeling torn between the two cultures in which she has been raised. (YA Fic)
	Sones, Sonya. One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies. 15-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother's grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born. (YA Fic)
	Wild, Margaret. One Night. A teenaged girl decides to have her baby and care for it on her own after a "one night stand" results in pregnancy. (YA Fic)
	Williams, Julie. Escaping Tornado Season: A Story in Poems. Poems describe how thirteen-year-old Allie, living with her grandparents in a small Minnesota town in the 1960s, struggles to cope with her father's recent death, being abandoned by her mother, and trying to fit in at school. (YA Fic)