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• And Then, Boom!

  Fipps, Lisa

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  A gripping novel in verse features a poverty-stricken boy who bravely rides out all the storms life keeps throwing at him.

• Black Star

  Alexander, Kwame

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  Charley, who's set on becoming the first female pitcher to play professional ball, must contend with the tensions about to boil over in her segregated town. Storytelling, historical verse and poetry all woven into one novel.

• Deep Water

  Sumner, Jamie

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  A novel-in-verse that spans one girl’s marathon swim over twelve miles and six hours, calling her mom back home with every stroke.

• Isabel in Bloom

  Respicio, Mae

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  A girl discovers a connection between her home in the Philippines and her new home in the U.S. through a special garden in this middle grade novel that celebrates nourishment and growth. Growth can take many forms in this beautifully…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lion of the Sky

  Hemnani, Ritu

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  An evocative historical novel-in-verse about a boy and his family who are forced to flee their home and become refugees after the British Partition of India.

• Louder Than Hunger

  Schu, John

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  A fictionalized account of the author’s experiences and emotions living in residential treatment facilities as a young teen with an eating disorder told in a wrenching and transformative novel-in-verse.

• Mid-Air

  Williams, Alicia D.

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  A tender-souled boy reeling from the death of his best friend struggles to fit into a world that wants him to grow up tough and unfeeling in this novel-in-verse.

• Murray Out of Water

  Tracy, Taylor

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  This beautiful novel-in-verse explores one girl's struggle to regain her magic after a hurricane forces her to move away from her beloved ocean that, she believes, has given her special powers.

• One Big Open Sky

  Cline-Ransome, Lesa

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  Three women narrate a perilous wagon journey westward that could set them free or cost them everything they have in this intergenerational verse novel that explores the history of the Black homesteader movement.

• Eb & Flow

  Baptist, Kelly J.

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  Two kids. One fight. No one thinks they’re wrong. But a ten-day suspension has tweens De'Kari and Ebony seeing the world with a fresh perspective in this poignant novel-in-verse.

• Kin

  Rooted in Hope

  Weatherford, Carole Boston

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  A portrait of a Black family tree shaped by enslavement and freedom, rendered in searing poems.

• Rain Rising

  Comrie, Courtne

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  A novel-in-verse about Rain, who must overcome sadness after her all-star brother is badly beaten up at a frat party.