YA Novels in Verse

National Poetry Month is celebrated across the world in the month of April. Not sure where to start with poetry? Try a novel in verse! Like a traditional novel, these books tell a complete story, but they use the verse style of poetry. Check out the call number 811.54 for traditional volumes of poetry. 

Beauty mark : a verse novel of Marilyn Monroe by 1956- Carole Boston Weatherford
Blood water paint by Joy McCullough
Chlorine sky by Mahogany L. Browne
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Every body looking by Candice Iloh
I am water by Meg Specksgoor
Kent State by Deborah Wiles
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Muted by Tami Charles
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The poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
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Punching the air by Ibi Aanu Zoboi
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The truth project by Dante Medema
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Turtle under ice by Juleah Del Rosario