Hardcover, 182 pages Published March 19th 2013 by HMH Books for Young Readers Source: Publisher “I envy the trees that grow at crossroads. They are never forced to decide which […]
Let’s step back in time back to last month’s theme of verse novels and take a look at Karen Hesse’s Out of the Dust. The setting is a small farm in […]
Hardcover, 237 pages Published March 18th 2014 by HMH Books for Young Readers cross-o-ver [kraws-oh-ver] noun A simple basketball move in which the player dribbles the ball quickly from one […]
Crank by Ellen Hopkins was… tough. To tell you the truth, I didn’t really like it at all but I could not put it down. A real life horror story, Crank follows Kristina/Bree as […]
When Lupita discovers Mami has been diagnosed with cancer, she is terrified by the possibility of losing her mother, the anchor of their close-knit Mexican American family. In the midst […]
Hate That Cat is a middle grade verse novel by Sharon Creech, and a sequel to Love That Dog. Jack is one grade older and has the same teacher as last year, Miss […]
Hardcover, 320 pages Published May 1st 2014 by Nancy Paulsen Books Source: Library “What are you doing, little one?” A priest steadies my ladder. “You don’t have to climb ladders […]
I was going to write about Karen Hesse’s Out of the Dust, the book that introduced me to verse novels (I hadn’t known you could tell a story in poems! The […]
Sarah Moon is the founder of Clear Eyes, Full Shelves, a blog and podcast. For the last four years, the site has hosted Verse Novel week, a celebration of all […]
Serafina has a secret dream. She wants to go to school and become a doctor with her best friend, Julie Marie. But in their rural village outside Port-au-Prince, Haiti, many […]
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