(many of these authors have several novels written in verse)
*Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
*A Time to Dance by Padma Venkatraman
*Sold by Patricia McCormick
*Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
*Skate Fate by Juan Felipe Herrera
*The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
*Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy by Sonya Sones
*I Heart You, You Haunt Me by Lisa Schroeder
*Mountain Dog by Margarita Engle
*Hidden by Helen Frost
*Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
*Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
*Because I Am Furniture by Thalia Chaltas
*Love & Leftovers by Sarah Tregay
*Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
Collections of poetry we suggest:
*Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
*The End of the Sidewalk by Shel Silverstein
*A Pizza the Size of the Sun by Jack Prelutsky
*The Sneetches & Other Stories by Dr. Seuss
*A Child's Calendar by John Updike
*Good Poems for Hard Times by Garrison Keillor
*The Book of Qualities by J. Ruth Gendler
*Dare to Dream... Change the World by Jill Corcoran
*Sing a Song of Popcorn by Mary Michaels White
*The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe
*100 Best-Loved Poems ed. by Philip Smith
*Favorite American Poems ed. by Paul Negri
Meeting: Thursday, March 31st, 3:30 to 5pm
Ages 11-17 welcome!
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