YA Poetry & Novels in Verse

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Our Beautiful Darkness

A Graphic Novel

by ‍ Ondjaki, Lyn Miller-Lachmann

Hardcover: Jul 2024

Critics' Consensus:

A blackout leads two teens to discover the intimacy and vulnerability that can only be shared in darkness in Our Beautiful Darkness, a fully illustrated YA novella from celebrated Angolan author Ondjaki and illustrator António Jorge Gonç...

Wings in the Wild

by Margarita Engle

Hardcover: Apr 2023 | Paperback: Apr 2024

Critics' Consensus:

This gorgeously romantic contemporary novel-in-verse from award-winning author Margarita Engle tells the inspiring love story of two teens fighting for climate action and human rights.

Punching the Air

by Yusef Salaam, Ibi Zoboi

Hardcover: Sep 2020 | Paperback: Dec 2021

Critics' Consensus:

From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. Perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds, Walter Dean Myers, and ...

Shout

by Laurie Halse Anderson

Hardcover: Mar 2019 | Paperback: Mar 2020

Critics' Consensus:

A searing poetic memoir and call to action from the bestselling and award-winning author of Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson!

Audacity

by Melanie Crowder

Hardcover: Jan 2015 | Paperback: Jan 2016

Critics' Consensus:

The inspiring story of Clara Lemlich, whose fight for equal rights led to the largest strike by women in American history

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by Patricia McCormick

Hardcover: Sep 2006 | Paperback: Apr 2008

Critics' Consensus:

Although Lakshmi's family is desperately poor her life still contains simple pleasures; but, when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all the family’s crops, Lakshmi’s stepfather sends her away to take a job to support her family. When...

A Night Without Armor

by Jewel Kilcher

Hardcover: May 1998 | Paperback: Aug 1999

Critics' Consensus:

In A Night Without Armor, her first collection of poetry, Jewel explores the fire of first love, the fading of passion, the giving of trust, the lessons of betrayal, and the healing of intimacy.

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