Quick Picks: Novels in Verse

The very first novel in verse I ever read was A Bad Boy Can be Good for a Girl by Tanya Lee Stone.  I’m by no stretch of the imagination a fast reader and picking up a book of poetry (in any form) is usually not my first instinct.  I was pleasantly surprised to find that Stone’s book was not only an incredibly quick read (I’m talking about a couple of hours – if that – one afternoon), but that the free verse poetry was accessible and enhanced the storytelling.  Since my first experience with a novel in verse, I’ve read and enjoyed many.  If you’re looking for a quick read – maybe you don’t have a lot of time but still want to get your read on OR you need to find a fast read for school – I would definitely recommend checking out a novel in verse.

Quick Picks: Novels in Verse

• I Need You More than I Love You and I Love You to Bits by Gunnar Ardelius
• Displacement by Thalia Chaltas
• Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck by Margarita Engle
• Nothing by Robin Friedman
• Hidden by Helen Frost

• Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials by Stephanie Hemphill
• Cold Skin by Steven Herrick
• Crank by Ellen Hopkins
• Shakespeare Bats Cleanup by Ron Koertge
• Exposed by Kimberly Marcus

• After the Kiss by Terra Elan McVoy
• Amiri & Odette:  A Love Story by Walter Dean Myers
• Chasing Brooklyn by Lisa Schroeder
• You are Not Here by Samantha Schutz
• Purple Daze by Sherry Shahan

• Orchards by Holly Thompson
• Becoming Billie Holiday by Carole Boston Weatherford
• Glimpse by Carol Lynch Williams
• The Watch that Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic by Allan Wolf
• Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff