Verse Novel


The Poet X
Long Way Down
Brown Girl Dreaming
The Crossover
Inside Out & Back Again
Starfish
Clap When You Land
Love That Dog (Jack, #1)
Punching the Air
Booked (The Crossover, #2)
Red, White, and Whole
Other Words for Home
Alone
Solo
Crank (Crank, #1)
The Song of Us by Kate FussnerBrown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline WoodsonStarfish by Lisa FippsEmmy in the Key of Code by Aimee LucidoOther Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
Middle Grade Novel-in-Verse
102 books — 28 voters
Crank by Ellen HopkinsI Heart You, You Haunt Me by Lisa SchroederIdentical by Ellen HopkinsBurned by Ellen HopkinsImpulse by Ellen Hopkins
YA Novels in Verse
289 books — 315 voters

May B. by Caroline Starr RoseThe Watch That Ends the Night by Allan WolfInside Out & Back Again by Thanhhà LạiEnemies in the Orchard by Dana VanderLugtYellow Star by Jennifer Roy
Historical Fiction Verse Novels
10 books — 9 voters
Louder Than Hunger by John SchuUnsinkable Cayenne by Jessica VitalisAnd Then, Boom! by Lisa FippsHummingbird Season by Stephanie V.W. LucianovicDeep Water by Jamie Sumner
Novel-in-Verse 2024
34 books — 4 voters

Perfect by Ellen HopkinsCrank by Ellen HopkinsBurned by Ellen HopkinsImpulse by Ellen HopkinsIdentical by Ellen Hopkins
The Verse Challenge
110 books — 89 voters
October Mourning by Lesléa NewmanNix Minus One by Jill MacLeanGarvey's Choice by Nikki GrimesNothing by Robin FriedmanSharp Teeth by Toby Barlow
Verse Novels for Boys
44 books — 10 voters

Jeannine Atkins
Stars crown the world, she said, but the lights in your eyes, those are stars, too. They make up your crown, he said.
Jeannine Atkins, Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science

Stasia Ward Kehoe
The dusty library air is electric with secrets/ almost palpable in the thick quiet that bounces between/ Cal and those books and me
Stasia Ward Kehoe, The Sound of Letting Go

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