811 Carver: A Life in Poems
Nelson,
Marilyn
NEL Summary: The life of George Washington Carver, agricultural researcher noted for peanuts.
FIC Heartbeat Creech, Sharon
CRE Summary: Twelve-year-old Annie ponders the many rhythms of life the year that her mother becomes pregnant, her grandfather begins faltering, and her best friend (and running partner) becomes distant.
FIC Brushing Mom’s Hair Nicole Wong
WON Summary: A fourteen-year-old girl, whose mother’s breast cancer diagnosis and treatment have affected every aspect of their lives, finds release in ballet and art classes.
811 Jump Ball: A Basketball Season in Poems Glenn, Mel
GLE Summary: What will happen to Tower High’s basketball season when a high-school team bus goes out of control on an icy road? Find out through voices of players, teachers, parents, and bystanders.
811 Locomotion Woodson, Jacqueline
WOO Summary: Inspired by his teacher, eleven-year-old Lonnie begins to write about his life in a series of poems in which he discusses his feelings about his friends, his foster mom, his little sister Lili, and the death of his parents.
FIC Tropical Secrets: Holocaust refugees in Cuba Engle, Margarita
ENG Summary: Escaping from Nazi Germany to Cuba in 1939, a young Jewish refugee dreams of finding his parents again, befriends a local girl with painful secrets of her own, and discovers that the Nazi darkness is never far away.
FIC Diamond Willow Frost, Helen
FRO Summary: In a remote area of Alaska, twelve-year-old Willow helps her father with their sled dogs when she is not at school, wishing she were more popular, all the while unaware that the animals surrounding her carry the spirits of dead ancestors and friends who care for her.
FIC Hate that cat Creech, Sharon
FRO Summary: With plenty of poetry from Tennyson, Eliot, and Poe, along with a hilarious hero and one amazing surprise, Newbery Medalist Creech makes magic once again, in this narrative poem sequel to her acclaimed "Love That Dog."
FIC Heaven looks a lot like the mall Mass, Wendy
MAS Summary: Written in accessible free verse, this poetic novel follows a disillusioned teenager who, after being hit in the head by a ball in gym class, finds herself floating up to what she thinks is heaven.
FIC I heart you, you haunt me Schroeder, Lisa
SCH Summary: A verse novel in which fifteen-year-old Ava, feeling guilty over the role she believes she played in her boyfriend Jackson's death, experiences a whole new range of emotions when she realizes he is back from the dead.
FIC Love That Dog Creech, Sharon
CRE Summary: Jack doesn’t like writing poetry…that’s just for girls, right? He only does it because his teacher keeps giving him poetry assignments. Witness hits transformation as the story unfolds.
FIC On Pointe Grover, Lorie Ann GRO Summary: In this novel written in free verse, Clare and her grandfather must deal with changes in their lives when Clare’s summer growth spurt threatens to end her dream of becoming a ballet dancer and her grandfather suffers a stroke.
FIC Out of the Dust Hesse, Karen
HES Summary: Fourteen-year-old Billie Jo writes in compelling, free-floating verse about the grim realities of life during the dust storms, when crops and dreams alikeblow away like tumbleweeds.
FIC Reaching for sun Zimmer, Tracie
ZIM Summary: In this novel written in verse, Josie, who has cerebral palsy, befriends a boy who moves into a house behind her old farmhouse.
FIC Shakespeare Bats Cleanup Koertge, Ron
KOE Summary: When a fourteen-year-old baseball player catches mononucleosis, he discovers that keeping a journal and experimenting with poetry not only helps fill the time, it also helps him deal with life, love, and loss.
FIC Shakespeare Makes the Playoffs Koertge, Ron
KOE Summary: Fourteen-year-old Kevin Boland, poet and first baseman, is torn between his cute girlfriend – Mira –and Amy, who is funny, plays Chopin on the piano, and is also a poet.
FIC Shark Girl Bingham, Kelly
BIN Summary: Fifteen-year-old Jane Arrowood struggles through a physical loss to the start of acceptance in this absorbing, artful novel which is at once honest and insightful, wrenching and redemptive.
FIC Spinning Through the Universe Frost, Helen
FRO Summary: A collection of poems written in the voices of Mrs. Williams of room 214, her students, and a custodian about their interactions with each other, their families, and the world around them. Includes notes on the poetic forms represented.
FIC The Trial Bryant, Jennifer
BRY Summary: Living in Flemington, New Jersey, in 1935, twelve-year-old Katie Leigh Flynn describes, in a series of poems, the effect on her small town of the ongoing trial of Bruno Hauptmann for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh’s baby son.
FIC True Believer Wolff, Virginia E. WOL Summary: Living in the inner city amidst guns and poverty, fifteen-year-old LaVaughn learns from old and new friends, and inspiring mentors, that life is what you make it – an occasion to rise to.
FIC What my girlfriend doesn't know Sones, Sonya SON Summary: Fourteen-year-old Robin Murphy is so unpopular at high school that his name is slang for "loser, " and so when he begins dating the beautiful and popular Sophie her reputation plummets, but he finds acceptance as a student in a drawing class at Harvard.
FIC What My Mother Doesn’t Know Sones, Sonya
SON Summary: Sophie describes her relationships with a series of boys as she searches for Mr.Right.
811 Who Killed Mr. Chippendale?: A Mystery in Poems Glenn, Mel
GLE Summary: A murder mystery told in free verse poems, describing the reactions of students, colleagues, and others when high school teacher Mr. Chippendale, loved by some, hated by others, is shot as the school day begins.
FIC Worlds Afire Janeczko, Paul B. JAN Summary: In this novel written as a collection of eyewitness poems, the excitement and anticipation of attending the circus on July 6, 1944 in Hartford, Connecticut, turns to horror when a fire engulfs the circus tent, killing nearly 180 people, mostly women and children.
FIC Yellow Star Roy, Jennifer
ROY Summary: From 1939, when Sylvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland’s Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation.
NEL Summary: The life of George Washington Carver, agricultural researcher noted for peanuts.
FIC Heartbeat Creech, Sharon
CRE Summary: Twelve-year-old Annie ponders the many rhythms of life the year that her mother becomes pregnant, her grandfather begins faltering, and her best friend (and running partner) becomes distant.
FIC Brushing Mom’s Hair Nicole Wong
WON Summary: A fourteen-year-old girl, whose mother’s breast cancer diagnosis and treatment have affected every aspect of their lives, finds release in ballet and art classes.
811 Jump Ball: A Basketball Season in Poems Glenn, Mel
GLE Summary: What will happen to Tower High’s basketball season when a high-school team bus goes out of control on an icy road? Find out through voices of players, teachers, parents, and bystanders.
811 Locomotion Woodson, Jacqueline
WOO Summary: Inspired by his teacher, eleven-year-old Lonnie begins to write about his life in a series of poems in which he discusses his feelings about his friends, his foster mom, his little sister Lili, and the death of his parents.
FIC Tropical Secrets: Holocaust refugees in Cuba Engle, Margarita
ENG Summary: Escaping from Nazi Germany to Cuba in 1939, a young Jewish refugee dreams of finding his parents again, befriends a local girl with painful secrets of her own, and discovers that the Nazi darkness is never far away.
FIC Diamond Willow Frost, Helen
FRO Summary: In a remote area of Alaska, twelve-year-old Willow helps her father with their sled dogs when she is not at school, wishing she were more popular, all the while unaware that the animals surrounding her carry the spirits of dead ancestors and friends who care for her.
FIC Hate that cat Creech, Sharon
FRO Summary: With plenty of poetry from Tennyson, Eliot, and Poe, along with a hilarious hero and one amazing surprise, Newbery Medalist Creech makes magic once again, in this narrative poem sequel to her acclaimed "Love That Dog."
FIC Heaven looks a lot like the mall Mass, Wendy
MAS Summary: Written in accessible free verse, this poetic novel follows a disillusioned teenager who, after being hit in the head by a ball in gym class, finds herself floating up to what she thinks is heaven.
FIC I heart you, you haunt me Schroeder, Lisa
SCH Summary: A verse novel in which fifteen-year-old Ava, feeling guilty over the role she believes she played in her boyfriend Jackson's death, experiences a whole new range of emotions when she realizes he is back from the dead.
FIC Love That Dog Creech, Sharon
CRE Summary: Jack doesn’t like writing poetry…that’s just for girls, right? He only does it because his teacher keeps giving him poetry assignments. Witness hits transformation as the story unfolds.
FIC On Pointe Grover, Lorie Ann GRO Summary: In this novel written in free verse, Clare and her grandfather must deal with changes in their lives when Clare’s summer growth spurt threatens to end her dream of becoming a ballet dancer and her grandfather suffers a stroke.
FIC Out of the Dust Hesse, Karen
HES Summary: Fourteen-year-old Billie Jo writes in compelling, free-floating verse about the grim realities of life during the dust storms, when crops and dreams alikeblow away like tumbleweeds.
FIC Reaching for sun Zimmer, Tracie
ZIM Summary: In this novel written in verse, Josie, who has cerebral palsy, befriends a boy who moves into a house behind her old farmhouse.
FIC Shakespeare Bats Cleanup Koertge, Ron
KOE Summary: When a fourteen-year-old baseball player catches mononucleosis, he discovers that keeping a journal and experimenting with poetry not only helps fill the time, it also helps him deal with life, love, and loss.
FIC Shakespeare Makes the Playoffs Koertge, Ron
KOE Summary: Fourteen-year-old Kevin Boland, poet and first baseman, is torn between his cute girlfriend – Mira –and Amy, who is funny, plays Chopin on the piano, and is also a poet.
FIC Shark Girl Bingham, Kelly
BIN Summary: Fifteen-year-old Jane Arrowood struggles through a physical loss to the start of acceptance in this absorbing, artful novel which is at once honest and insightful, wrenching and redemptive.
FIC Spinning Through the Universe Frost, Helen
FRO Summary: A collection of poems written in the voices of Mrs. Williams of room 214, her students, and a custodian about their interactions with each other, their families, and the world around them. Includes notes on the poetic forms represented.
FIC The Trial Bryant, Jennifer
BRY Summary: Living in Flemington, New Jersey, in 1935, twelve-year-old Katie Leigh Flynn describes, in a series of poems, the effect on her small town of the ongoing trial of Bruno Hauptmann for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh’s baby son.
FIC True Believer Wolff, Virginia E. WOL Summary: Living in the inner city amidst guns and poverty, fifteen-year-old LaVaughn learns from old and new friends, and inspiring mentors, that life is what you make it – an occasion to rise to.
FIC What my girlfriend doesn't know Sones, Sonya SON Summary: Fourteen-year-old Robin Murphy is so unpopular at high school that his name is slang for "loser, " and so when he begins dating the beautiful and popular Sophie her reputation plummets, but he finds acceptance as a student in a drawing class at Harvard.
FIC What My Mother Doesn’t Know Sones, Sonya
SON Summary: Sophie describes her relationships with a series of boys as she searches for Mr.Right.
811 Who Killed Mr. Chippendale?: A Mystery in Poems Glenn, Mel
GLE Summary: A murder mystery told in free verse poems, describing the reactions of students, colleagues, and others when high school teacher Mr. Chippendale, loved by some, hated by others, is shot as the school day begins.
FIC Worlds Afire Janeczko, Paul B. JAN Summary: In this novel written as a collection of eyewitness poems, the excitement and anticipation of attending the circus on July 6, 1944 in Hartford, Connecticut, turns to horror when a fire engulfs the circus tent, killing nearly 180 people, mostly women and children.
FIC Yellow Star Roy, Jennifer
ROY Summary: From 1939, when Sylvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland’s Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation.
