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Review: Soaring Earth by Margarita Engle

Soaring Earth by Margarita Engle (9781534429536) The award-winning author returns with a companion book to her memoir Enchanted Air. In this book, Engle writes in verse about her time in high school....

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Review: A Slip of a Girl by Patricia Reilly Giff

A Slip of a Girl by Patricia Reilly Giff (9780823439553) This verse novel tells the story of a girl surviving the Irish Land Wars between the English landowners and the Irish tenant farmers. Anna has...

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Review: Redwood and Ponytail by K.A. Holt

Redwood and Ponytail by K.A. Holt (9781452172880) This verse novel takes a heartfelt look at a high school romance between two girls. Beginning with a fire being set, the book then takes readers back...

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Review: Three Things I Know Are True by Betty Culley

Three Things I Know Are True by Betty Culley (9780062908025) This verse novel for teens tells the story of two families shattered by one gun shot. Jonah had always been a daredevil, but that ended one...

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Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo (9780062882769) After a plane crashes on its way to the Dominican Republic, two families are impacted with grief and loss. Camino lives in the Dominican...

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All He Knew by Helen Frost

All He Knew cover image All He Knew by Helen Frost (9780374312992) Henry started out life talking and able to hear, until a fever took his hearing as a small child. By the time Henry is six, he is...

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The Canyon’s Edge by Dusti Bowling

Cover image for The Canyon’s Edge The Canyon’s Edge by Dusti Bowling (9780316494694) This novel in verse tells a harrowing survival story. After losing her mother in a random shooting at her birthday...

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Home Is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo

Cover image for Home Is Not a Country. Home Is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo (9780593177051) Nima has always wished that she was different somehow. Part of it is the loss of her father before she was...

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Your Heart, My Sky by Margarita Engle

Cover image for Your Heart, My Sky. Your Heart, My Sky by Margarita Engle (9781534464964) Liana and Amado are trying to survive Cuba’s el período especial en tiempos de paz—the special period in times...

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Me (Moth) by Amber McBride

Cover image for Me (Moth). Me (Moth) by Amber McBride (9781250780362) Moth’s family were all killed in a car accident that left her face scarred. Now she lives with her aunt, who barely acknowledges...

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