Novels+in+Verse

[|Out of the Dust]- Hesse [|Home of the Brave]- Applegate [|Who Killed Mr. Chippendale] - Glenn __Aleutian Sparrow - Karen Hesse Witness - Karen Hesse Locomotion - Jacqueline Woodson__ __42 Miles - Zimmer Beanball - Fehler Becoming Billie Holiday - Weatherford Burned - Hopkins Identical - Hopkins [|Impulse] - Hopkins Song of the Sparrow - Sandell Everything is Fine - Ellis Heartbeat by Sharon creech Love that Dog. Sharon Creech Bronx Masquerade. Nikki Grimes Loose Threads. Lorie Ann Grover. Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey. Margaret Peterson Haddix Out of the Dust. Karen Hesse Shakespeare Bats Cleanup. Ron Koertge heaven Loos a Lot like the Mall. Wendy Mass I heart you, You haunt me. Lisa Schroeder. One of those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies. Sonya Sones. What My Girlfirend Doesn't Know. Sonya Sones. Runaway. Wendelin Van Draanen. 42 Miles. Tracie Vaughn Zimmer. Reading for the Sun. Tracie Vaughn Zimmer. Shark Girl. Kelly Bingham Pieces of Georgia Jennifer Bryant. Al the Broken Pieces - Burg Call Me Maria - Cofer Hate taht Cat - Creech This is What I Did - Ellis Grover - On Pointe Hemphill - things Left Unsaid. Hopkins - Identical Myers - Street Love Myers - Amirl & Odette: a love story Rylant - God went to Beauty School Schroeder - Far from You Sones - What my mother doesn't know Testa - Becoming Joe DiMaggio Turner - Hard Hit Woodson - Locomotion Wolff - This Full House Stop Pretending: What Happened When my Big Sister Went Crazy - Sones I__ n a story based on real events, and told in poems, Sones explores what happened and how she reacted when her adored older sister suddenly began scraming and hearing voices in her head, and was ultimately hospitalized.

__Pieces of Georgia By Jen Bryant__ This slight novel tells of near 13-year-old Georgia, still grieving the loss of her mother six years before. An anonymous benefactor gives her a museum membership, hoping that her love of art will be the cure for her sadness. Georgia's own journal entries are composed in free ve **rse**

__By Helen Frost__ At-risk teenagers congregate at a safe house, and we gradually learn what brought each of them there—an unplanned pregnancy, harassment about sexual orientation, and an unloving foster parent. A complicated poetic format (sestinas) doesn't make for a complicated read—the plot is equal to the poetry.
 * __Keesha's House__**

__By Ellen Hopkins__ Hopkins has become the leading author of novels in verse, mainly due to her gritty, unflinching subject matter__.__//__Crank__//, her first novel, deals with Kristina/Bree and her addiction to crystal meth.
 * __Crank__**

__By Walter Dean Myers__ Using rap-tinged poetry, Myers tells a tale of star-crossed lovers in the inner city.
 * __Street Love__**

__By Sonya Sones__ When Ruby's mother dies, she must move to California to live with her movie-star father, who she doesn't really know. Though, she's determined to hate her rich famous father and she misses her old life in Boston, she comes to accept her new life.
 * __One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies__**

__By Virginia Euwer Woolf__ Studious LaVaughn, 14, decides to earn extra money by babysitting for a child whose mother, Jolly, is only a bit older than LaVaughn herself. LaVaughn gradually comes to respect Jolly and eventually the two become friends.
 * __Make Lemonade__**