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| The Poet X by Elizabeth AcevedoStarring: 15-year-old Xiomara, who isn't afraid to speak with her fists when she's harassed on the street, but who discovers that poetry offers an outlet for her family frustrations, her doubts about her Catholic faith, and her feelings about her secret boyfriend.
About the author: Slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo makes her debut with this bittersweet, hard-hitting novel in verse.
Try this next: Isabel Quintero's Gabi, A Girl in Pieces, for another memorable Latina character finding her voice. |
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After the shot drops
by Randy Ribay
Told from alternating perspectives, Bunny takes a basketball scholarship to an elite private school to help his family, leaving behind Nasir, his best friend, in their tough Philadelphia neighborhood
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Americanized : Rebel Without a Green Card
by Sara Saedi
Learning as a teenager that her Iranian family is undocumented, 13-year-old, straight-A student Sara Saedi juggles the challenges of trying to obtain a green card with the stressful realities of being an everyday American teen. Simultaneous eBook.
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Blood water paint
by Joy McCullough
In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible
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More than we can tell
by Brigid Kemmerer
When Rev Fletcher and Emma Blue meet, they both long to share secrets, his of being abused by his birth father, hers of her parents' failing marriage and an online troll who truly frightens her
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Focus on: National Poetry Month -- Novels in Verse |
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Ask Me How I Got Here
by Christine Heppermann
A novel in verse traces the experiences of a young woman who becomes pregnant after one careless night and decides to have an abortion but struggles with depression before reconnecting with a former teammate who is going through her own difficulties. By the award-winning author of Poisoned Apples.
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Solo
by Kwame Alexander with Mary Rand Hess
Novel in Verse. As the son of a rock star who's notorious for his addictions, 17-year-old Blade Morrison's privilege has always been shadowed by his dad's neglect and unreliability. Still, Blade's own music provides him with a creative outlet -- or it used to, until a shocking family secret upended his life and sent him on a journey from California to Ghana in search of answers. Combining Blade's authentic first-person voice with his original lyrics and references to classic rock, this novel in verse is a "rhythmic, impassioned ode to family, identity, and the history of rock and roll" (Booklist).
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Death coming up the hill
by Chris Crowe
A tale told in weekly verses recounts a year in the life of a 1968 teen who observes such challenges as his father's racism, the actions of his peace-activist mother, the escalating war in Vietnam, the Democratic Convention in Chicago and the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. Simultaneous eBook. 10,000 first printing.
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Girls like me
by Lola StVil
Fifteen-year-old Shay Summers is trying to cope with the death of her father, being overweight and threats from a girl bully in school, so when she falls in love with Blake, a mysterious boy online, she's too insecure to tell him who she is until her two best friends (as well as Kermit and Miss Piggy) help love prevail. Simultaneous eBook.
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Long Way Down
by Jason Reynolds
Verse Fiction. In the aftermath of his brother's murder, grieving 15-year-old Will boards the elevator in his building with a gun in his waistband. He knows The Rules: don't cry, don't snitch, just get your revenge. But can Will's resolve outlast the surprises of his ride to the ground floor? Popular author Jason Reynolds' spare, page-turning poetry delivers an emotional punch that you won't soon forget.
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