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Book cover of GOOD DIFFERENT
GOOD DIFFERENT
By: meg kuyatt | Published: April 2023

Selah knows her rules for being normal. She always, always sticks to them. This means keeping her feelings locked tightly inside, despite the way...

Selah knows her rules for being normal. She always, always sticks to them. This means keeping her feelings locked tightly inside, despite the way they build up inside her as each school day goes on, so that she has to run to the bathroom and hide in the stall until she can calm down. So that she has to tear off her normal-person mask the second she gets home from school, and listen to her favorite pop song on repeat, trying to recharge. Selah feels like a dragon stuck in a world of humans, but she knows how to hide it. Until the day she explodes and hits a fellow student. Selah's friends pull away from her, her school threatens expulsion, and her comfortable, familiar world starts to crumble. But as Selah starts to figure out more about who she is, she comes to understand that different doesn't mean damaged. Can she get her school to understand that, too, before it's too late?

Theme: Written in Verse, Autism, Special Needs

  • ISBN
    9781338816105
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    Junior Fiction
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HEARTBEAT
By: sharon creech | Published: October 2005

Twelve-year-old Annie ponders the many rhythms of life the year that her mother becomes pregnant, her grandfather begins faltering, and her best...

Twelve-year-old Annie ponders the many rhythms of life the year that her mother becomes pregnant, her grandfather begins faltering, and her best friend (and running partner) becomes distant.

Theme: Friendship, Inter-Generational, Written in Verse, Illness

  • ISBN
    9780060540241
  • Binding
    Paperback
  • Category
    Junior Fiction
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Book cover of HEAVEN LOOKS A LOT LIKE A MALL
HEAVEN LOOKS A LOT LIKE A MALL
By: wendy mass | Published: November 2008

Theme: Humour, Written in Verse, Self-Esteem

  • ISBN
    9780316058506
  • Binding
    Paperback
  • Category
    Intermediate Fiction
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$19.99
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HOME OF THE BRAVE
By: katherine applegate | Published: December 2008

A man I helped to settle here taught me a saying from Africa. I'll bet you would like it: A cow is God with a wet nose. Kek comes from Africa...

A man I helped to settle here taught me a saying from Africa. I'll bet you would like it: A cow is God with a wet nose. Kek comes from Africa where he lived with his mother, father, and brother. But only he and his mother have survived. Now she's missing, and Kek has been sent to a new home. In America, he sees snow for the first time, and feels its sting. He wonders if the people in this new place will be like the winter-cold and unkind. But slowly he makes friends: a girl in foster care, an old woman with a rundown farm, and a sweet, sad cow that reminds Kek of home. As he waits for word of his mother's fate, Kek weathers the tough Minnesota winter by finding warmth in his new friendships, strength in his memories, and belief in his new country.

Theme: Immigration, Written in Verse, Character Education, Diversity, Big Ideas, Activism

  • ISBN
    9780312535636
  • Binding
    Paperback
  • Category
    Junior Fiction
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HOUSE ARREST
By: k.a. holt | Published: August 2016

Timothy is a good kid who did a bad thing. Now he's under house arrest for a whole year. He has to check in weekly with a probation officer and a...

Timothy is a good kid who did a bad thing. Now he's under house arrest for a whole year. He has to check in weekly with a probation officer and a therapist, keep a journal, and stay out of trouble. But when he must take drastic measures to help his struggling family, staying out of trouble proves more difficult than Timothy ever thought it would be.

Theme: Illness, High Interest/Low Vocabulary, Written in Verse, Siblings

  • ISBN
    9781452156484
  • Binding
    Paperback
  • Category
    Intermediate Fiction
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Book cover of HOW THE BOOGEYMAN BECAME A POET
HOW THE BOOGEYMAN BECAME A POET
By: tony keith | Published: February 2024

Poet, writer, and hip-hop educator Tony Keith Jr. makes his debut with a powerful YA memoir in verse, tracing his journey from being a closeted gay...

Poet, writer, and hip-hop educator Tony Keith Jr. makes his debut with a powerful YA memoir in verse, tracing his journey from being a closeted gay Black teen battling poverty, racism, and homophobia to becoming an openly gay first-generation college student who finds freedom in poetry. Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo, George M. Johnson, and Jacqueline Woodson. Tony dreams about life after high school, where his poetic voice can find freedom on the stage and page. But the Boogeyman has been following Tony since he was six years old. First, the Boogeyman was after his Blackness, but Tony has learned It knows more than that: Tony wants to be the first in his family to attend college, but there's no path to follow. He also has feelings for boys, desires that don't align with the script he thinks is set for him and his girlfriend, Blu. Despite a supportive network of family and friends, Tony doesn't breathe a word to anyone about his feelings. As he grapples with his sexuality and moves from high school to college, he struggles with loneliness while finding solace in gay chat rooms and writing poetry. But how do you find your poetic voice when you are hiding the most important parts of yourself? And how do you escape the Boogeyman when it's lurking inside you?

Theme: LGBTQ2S+, Memoir, Written in Verse

  • ISBN
    9780063296008
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    High School - Biography
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$24.99
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Book cover of IF I TELL YOU THE TRUTH
IF I TELL YOU THE TRUTH
By: jasmin kaur | Published: July 2022

Theme: Written in Verse

  • ISBN
    9780062912657
  • Binding
    Paperback Canadian
  • Category
    Young Adult Fiction
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Book cover of IF THIS BIRD HAD POCKETS
IF THIS BIRD HAD POCKETS
By: amy vanderwater | Published: March 2022

Theme: Written in Verse

  • ISBN
    9781635923865
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    Picture Book
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Book cover of IMPOSSIBLE THING TO SAY
IMPOSSIBLE THING TO SAY
By: arya shahi | Published: September 2023

Omid needs the right words to connect with his newly-met grandfather and distant Iranian heritage, words to tell a special girl what she means to...

Omid needs the right words to connect with his newly-met grandfather and distant Iranian heritage, words to tell a special girl what she means to him and to show everyone that he truly belongs in Tucson, Arizona, the only home he's ever known. Neither the school play's Shakespearian English nor his parents' Farsi seems up to the task, and it's only when Omid delves into the rhymes and rhythms of rap music that he starts to find his voice. But even as he does so, an act of terrorism transforms familiar accents into new threats. Then a family member disappears, and it seems everyone but Omid knows why. When words fail altogether, and violence takes their place, what will Omid do next?

Theme: Written in Verse

  • ISBN
    9780063248359
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    Young Adult Fiction
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Book cover of IN YOU I SEE
IN YOU I SEE
By: rachel emily | Published: February 2022

Theme: Written in Verse

  • ISBN
    9780744049886
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    Picture Book
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Book cover of IN-BETWEEN
IN-BETWEEN
By: katie vanheidrich | Published: January 2023

Theme: Written in Verse, Memoir, Poverty

  • ISBN
    9781665920124
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    Biography
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Book cover of LAND OF THE CRANES
LAND OF THE CRANES
By: aida salazar | Published: September 2020

From the prolific author of The Moon Within comes the heart-wrenchingly beautiful story in verse of a young Latinx girl who learns to hold on to hope...

From the prolific author of The Moon Within comes the heart-wrenchingly beautiful story in verse of a young Latinx girl who learns to hold on to hope and love even in the darkest of places: a family detention center for migrants and refugees. Nine-year-old Betita knows she is a crane. Papi has told her the story, even before her family fled to Los Angeles to seek refuge from cartel wars in Mexico. The Aztecs came from a place called Aztlan, what is now the Southwest US, called the land of the cranes. They left Aztlan to establish their great city in the center of the universe-Tenochtitlan, modern-day Mexico City. It was prophesized that their people would one day return to live among the cranes in their promised land. Papi tells Betita that they are cranes that have come home.Then one day, Betita''s beloved father is arrested by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and deported to Mexico. Betita and her pregnant mother are left behind on their own, but soon they too are detained and must learn to survive in a family detention camp outside of Los Angeles. Even in cruel and inhumane conditions, Betita finds heart in her own poetry and in the community she and her mother find in the camp. The voices of her fellow asylum seekers fly above the hatred keeping them caged, but each day threatens to tear them down lower than they ever thought they could be. Will Betita and her family ever be whole again?

Theme: Written in Verse, Diversity, Immigration, Hispanic

  • ISBN
    9781338343809
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    Junior Fiction
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Book cover of LONG WAY DOWN
LONG WAY DOWN
By: jason reynolds | Published: October 2017

A Newbery Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Honor Book A Printz Honor Book A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner for Young Adult Literature ...

A Newbery Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Honor Book A Printz Honor Book A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner for Young Adult Literature Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award An Edgar Award Winner for Best Young Adult Fiction Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner An Entertainment Weekly Best YA Book of 2017 A Vulture Best YA Book of 2017 A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of 2017 An ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestseller Jason Reynolds’s fiercely stunning novel that takes place in sixty potent seconds—the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not he’s going to murder the guy who killed his brother. A cannon. A strap. A piece. A biscuit. A burner. A heater. A chopper. A gat. A hammer A tool for RULE Or, you can call it a gun. That’s what fifteen-year-old Will has shoved in the back waistband of his jeans. See, his brother Shawn was just murdered. And Will knows the rules. No crying. No snitching. Revenge. That’s where Will’s now heading, with that gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, the gun that was his brother’s gun. He gets on the elevator, seventh floor, stoked. He knows who he’s after. Or does he? As the elevator stops on the sixth floor, on comes Buck. Buck, Will finds out, is who gave Shawn the gun before Will took the gun. Buck tells Will to check that the gun is even loaded. And that’s when Will sees that one bullet is missing. And the only one who could have fired Shawn’s gun was Shawn. Huh. Will didn’t know that Shawn had ever actually USED his gun. Bigger huh. BUCK IS DEAD. But Buck’s in the elevator? Just as Will’s trying to think this through, the door to the next floor opens. A teenage girl gets on, waves away the smoke from Dead Buck’s cigarette. Will doesn’t know her, but she knew him. Knew. When they were eight. And stray bullets had cut through the playground, and Will had tried to cover her, but she was hit anyway, and so what she wants to know, on that fifth floor elevator stop, is, what if Will, Will with the gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, MISSES. And so it goes, the whole long way down, as the elevator stops on each floor, and at each stop someone connected to his brother gets on to give Will a piece to a bigger story than the one he thinks he knows. A story that might never know an END…if WILL gets off that elevator. Told in short, fierce staccato narrative verse, Long Way Down is a fast and furious, dazzlingly brilliant look at teenage gun violence, as could only be told by Jason Reynolds.

Theme: Written in Verse, #BlackLivesMatter

  • ISBN
    9781481438254
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    Intermediate Fiction
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LONG WAY DOWN [GRAPHIC NOVEL VERSION]
By: jason reynolds | Published: February 2022

Will’s older brother, Shawn, has been shot. Dead. Will feels a sadness so great, he can’t explain it. But in his neighborhood, there are THE...

Will’s older brother, Shawn, has been shot. Dead. Will feels a sadness so great, he can’t explain it. But in his neighborhood, there are THE RULES: #1: Crying. Don’t. No matter what. #2: Snitching Don’t. No matter what. #3: Revenge Do. No matter what. But bullets miss. You can get the wrong guy. And there’s always someone else who knows to follow the rules…

Theme: #BlackLivesMatter, Gangs, Written in Verse

  • ISBN
    9781534444966
  • Binding
    Paperback
  • Category
    Graphic Novel Teen
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$16.99
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Book cover of LONG WAY DOWN GRAPHIC NOVEL
LONG WAY DOWN GRAPHIC NOVEL
By: jason reynolds | Published: October 2020

Will’s older brother, Shawn, has been shot. Dead. Will feels a sadness so great, he can’t explain it. But in his neighborhood, there are THE...

Will’s older brother, Shawn, has been shot. Dead. Will feels a sadness so great, he can’t explain it. But in his neighborhood, there are THE RULES: No. 1: Crying. Don’t. No matter what. No. 2: Snitching Don’t. No matter what. No. 3: Revenge Do. No matter what. But bullets miss. You can get the wrong guy. And there’s always someone else who knows to follow the rules…

Theme: #BlackLivesMatter, Gangs, Written in Verse

  • ISBN
    9781534444959
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    Graphic Novel Children's
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