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Category Archives: Verse Novel

Review: The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba’s Greatest Abolitionist by Margarita Engle

December 23, 2015by Nafiza 3 Comments

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 […]

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Diverse, Diversity, Historical Fiction, History, Nonfiction, Review, Review Copy, Verse Novel, Verse Novels

Snapshot: Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

August 13, 2015by Janet Leave a comment

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 […]

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Death and Mourning, Historical Fiction, Out of Theme, Verse Novel

Joint Review: The Crossover by Kwame Alexander

July 29, 2015by Nafiza 5 Comments

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 […]

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Review, Verse Novel, Verse Novels

Review: Crank by Ellen Hopkins

July 27, 2015by stephiedror 1 Comment

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 […]

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Review, This Month's Theme, Verse Novel

Review: Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall

July 24, 2015by Yash 1 Comment

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 […]

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Poetry, Verse Novel

Love That Book Hate That Cat

July 23, 2015by Janet 4 Comments

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 […]

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Verse Novel

Verse Novel Review: A Time to Dance by Padma Venkatraman

July 22, 2015by Nafiza 8 Comments

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 […]

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Disability, Diverse, favourites, Realistic Fiction, Review, Verse Novel, Verse Novels

Life goes on: characters and (non)resolution in Witness by Karen Hess

July 16, 2015by Janet 1 Comment

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 […]

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Historical Fiction, History, Verse Novel

Guest Post: Sarah Moon on “Verse Novels That Break Your Heart and Piece it Back Together Again”

July 15, 2015by Nafiza Leave a comment

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 […]

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Guest Post, Verse Novel, Verse Novels

Review: Serafina’s Promise by Ann E. Burg

July 10, 2015by Yash 2 Comments

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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middle grade, Poetry, Verse Novel

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