Poetry Month reads

List of JFIC books in verse and poetry collections for youth and middle school readers.
 

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1. Before the ever after

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Author:
Woodson, Jacqueline
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Description:
ZJ's friends Ollie, Darry and Daniel help him cope when his father, a beloved professional football player, suffers severe headaches and memory loss that spell the end of his career.

2. Booked

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Author:
Alexander, Kwame
Series:
Crossover (Alexander: Graphic novels) volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Description:
Twelve-year-old Nick loves soccer and hates books, but soon learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams.

3. The door of no return

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Author:
Alexander, Kwame
Series:
Door of no return volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"A novel in verse about an Asante boy who is captured and taken from his village during the nineteenth century."--

4. Emmy in the key of code

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Author:
Lucido, Aimee
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Description:
Sixth-grader Emmy tries to find her place in a new school and to figure out how she can create her own kind of music using a computer.

5. Flipping forward twisting backward

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Author:
Fullerton, Alma
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"Fifth-grader Claire can do a perfect triple handspring. She can do a giant pirouette on the uneven bars. What she can't do is reading. With a lot of effort, she hides her secret until an alert vice principle suggests she get evaluated for a learning disability. Now Claire has to convince her mother--who's afraid her daughter will be labeled 'stupid'--to let her get tested. And that turns out to be even harder than reading"--

6. Good different

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Author:
Kuyatt, Meg Eden
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"Seventh-grader Selah Godfrey knows that to be "normal" she has to keep her feelings tightly controlled when people are around, but after hitting a fellow student, she needs to figure out just what makes her different--and why that is ok. Told in verse."--

7. The lost language

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Author:
Mills, Claudia
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Best friends and sixth-graders Bumble and Lizard go on a quest to save the severely endangered language, Guernésiais, partly to impress Bumble's linguist mother.

8. Love that dog

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Author:
Creech, Sharon
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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A young student, who comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him, surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem.

9. Moo

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Author:
Creech, Sharon
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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Description:
Follows the efforts of twelve-year-old Reena, who has recently moved to rural Maine, to adjust to a new environment while unexpectedly bonding with an ornery cow.

10. Odder

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Author:
Applegate, Katherine
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"Odder spends her days playing underwater and learning life lessons from her mother. But when Odder's life takes a dramatic turn, she is rescued by humans. The people are kind, and introduce Odder to other rescues. Soon, it's clear that Odder has a talent for teaching other pups how to otter. Adapted from Katherine Applegate's bestselling novel of the same name (with over 80 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list!), and inspired by the true story...

11. The one thing you'd save

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Author:
Park, Linda Sue
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"If your house were on fire, what one thing would you save? Newbery medalist Linda Sue Park explores different answers to this provocative question in linked poems that capture the diverse voices of a middle school class"--Publisher marketing.

12. Other words for home

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Author:
Warga, Jasmine
Average Rating:
3.4 stars
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Sent with her mother to the safety of a relative's home in Cincinnati when her Syrian hometown is overshadowed by violence, Jude worries for the family members who were left behind as she adjusts to a new life with unexpected surprises.

13. Rez dogs

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Author:
Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-
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"Twelve-year-old Malian lives with her grandparents on a Wabanaki reservation during the COVID-19 pandemic"--

14. Starfish

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Author:
Fipps, Lisa
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.

15. A stone sat still

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Author:
Wenzel, Brendan
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Told in rhyming verse, a stone is considered from a variety of environmental and emotional perspectives, as it sits where it is, surrounded by grass, dirt, and water, an unchanging certainty in the world.

16. Unsettled

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Author:
Faruqi, Reem
Average Rating:
1 stars
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Young Nurah reluctantly moves with her family from Karachi, Pakistan, to Peachtree City, Georgia, but, after some ups and downs, begins to feel at home.

17. When clouds touch us

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Author:
Lại, Thanhhà
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"Ha and her family have worked hard to make a life for themselves in the US, but it hasn't come easy. Ha has only just started to feel settled when Mother decides that the family will move to Texas for a new job."--Publisher's description.