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Novels in verse, such as these five recommended for intermediate and/or middle-school readers, can pack a lot of meaning into relatively short lines. See also the March/April 2024 Horn Book Magazine, with its centennial mini-theme of Poetry & Folklore, and Dorie Raybuck’s 2015 Field Notes column, “This Is Too Much!”:...
Voices in verse
These four books, recommended for middle-school or high-school readers, take a poetic approach to telling their tales. For additional creative uses of verse to tell a story (for intermediate and middle-school readers), see the recent nonfiction book Kin: Rooted in Hope (Atheneum) by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Jeffery Boston...
A variety of verse (novels)
April is National Poetry Month. These seven distinct novels in verse showcase a wide selection of poetry forms, narrative formats, and genres available to middle-school and high-school readers to meet their interests; see also the Guide/Reviews Database subject tag Poetry and read our five questions interview with Joseph Bruchac about...
Review of Red, White, and Whole
Red, White, and Whole by Rajani LaRocca Middle School Quill Tree/HarperCollins 224 pp. g 2/21 978-0-06-304742-6 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-304744-0 $9.99 It’s 1983, and thirteen-year-old Reha feels she has “two lives.” In one, she’s a serious student who tries to make her Indian immigrant parents proud but is seen as...
Review of I Am Here Now
I Am Here Now by Barbara Bottner High School Imprint/Macmillan 347 pp. g 8/20 978-1-250-20769-2 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-250-20770-8 $9.99 Fourteen-year-old Maisie characterizes her 1960s coming-of-age in the Bronx as “one of those fairy tales / where the witch eats the child.” And for good reason. Her perfume mogul dad...
Review of Love, Love
Love, Love by Victoria Chang Intermediate, Middle School Sterling 214 pp. g 6/20 978-1-4549-3832-3 $16.95 This semiautobiographical verse novel begins with eleven-year-old Chinese American girl Frances Chin witnessing an attack on her older sister, Clara, behind their school. (Frances herself has endured taunts centered on race: “you’re SO SO ugly...
Books mentioned in the July 2020 issue of Notes from the Horn Book
Five questions for Monica Brown Sharuko: El arqueólogo Peruano Julio C. Tello / Peruvian Archaeologist Julio C. Tello by Monica Brown, illus. by Elisa Chavarri, trans. into Spanish by Adriana Domínguez, Children's/Lee. Exploration and curiosity Buzzing with Questions: The Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Turner by Janice N. Harrington, illus....
Review of With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero
With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero by Margarita Engle Middle School, High School Atheneum 150 pp. g 2/20 978-1-5344-2493-7 $17.99 e-book ed. 978-1-5344-2495-1 $10.99 Written in first person, this heartfelt verse novel tells the fictionalized story of Rubén Darío (based on his autobiography), who was born...
Middle school and YA verse novels and poetry
Encourage middle- and high schoolers to read poetry beyond National Poetry Month by sharing with them these four historically set books in verse. And also check out 2020 Boston Globe–Horn Book Fiction and Poetry honor book verse novel Clap When You Land and our Five Questions interview with author Elizabeth...
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