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Book cover of 1 LAST SHOT - BASED ON A TRUE STORY OF
1 LAST SHOT - BASED ON A TRUE STORY OF
By: kip wilson | Published: January 2023

The daughter of Polish Jewish immigrants, Gerta Pohorylle, doesn't quite fit in with her German classmates. While she's away at boarding school,...

The daughter of Polish Jewish immigrants, Gerta Pohorylle, doesn't quite fit in with her German classmates. While she's away at boarding school, however, she becomes a master at reinventing herself as a vibrant, confident young woman. When she returns from school, she joins a group of young activists and is arrested for distributing anti-Nazi propaganda. Her family decides she must leave Germany. In Paris, Gerta meets André Friedman, a Hungarian photographer eager for fame and fortune, who fosters Gerda's interest in photography. Together the pair reinvents their brand of photojournalism under the names Robert Capa and Gerda Taro, in part to gloss over their Jewish ancestry, and soon they're traveling to areas of military conflict and selling their photos for high prices. Gerda continues to travel solo through Europe, often the only woman in journalism circles. Her assignments eventually lead her to Spain to cover the growing conflict that is becoming the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), part of events leading to World War II. True to her political beliefs, Gerda pushes closer and closer to the front line, eager to capture the lives and vibrant hopes of Spanish republican forces fighting against fascism, only to lose sight of her own safety.

Theme: Written in Verse, War/Children and War

  • ISBN
    9780063251687
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    Young Adult Fiction
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ALMA PRESSES PLAY
By: tina cane | Published: September 2021

Theme: Written in Verse, Blended family, Diversity

  • ISBN
    9780593121146
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    Young Adult Fiction
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BEAUTY MARK
By: carole weatherford | Published: September 2020

In a powerful novel in verse, an award-winning author offers an eye-opening look at the life of Marilyn Monroe. From the day she was born into a...

In a powerful novel in verse, an award-winning author offers an eye-opening look at the life of Marilyn Monroe. From the day she was born into a troubled home to her reigning days as a Hollywood icon, Marilyn Monroe (née Norma Jeane Mortenson) lived a life that was often defined by others. Here, in a luminous poetic narrative, acclaimed author Carole Boston Weatherford tells Marilyn's story in a way that restores her voice to its rightful place: center stage. Revisiting Marilyn's often traumatic early life--foster homes, loneliness, sexual abuse, teen marriage--through a hard-won, meteoric rise to stardom that brought with it exploitation, pill dependency, and depression, the lyrical narrative continues through Marilyn's famous performance at JFK's birthday party, three months before her death. In a story at once riveting, moving, and unflinching, Carole Boston Weatherford tells a tale of extraordinary pain and moments of unexpected grace, gumption, and perseverance, as well as the inexorable power of pursuing one's dreams. A beautifully designed volume.

Theme: Written in Verse

  • ISBN
    9781536206296
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    Young Adult Fiction
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BLACK FLAMINGO
By: dean atta | Published: May 2021

Michael is a mixed-race gay teen growing up in London. All his life, he's navigated what it means to be Greek-Cypriot and Jamaican--but never quite...

Michael is a mixed-race gay teen growing up in London. All his life, he's navigated what it means to be Greek-Cypriot and Jamaican--but never quite feeling Greek or Black enough. As he gets older, Michael's coming out is only the start of learning who he is and where he fits in. When he discovers the Drag Society, he finally finds where he belongs--and the Black Flamingo is born.

Theme: LGBTQ2S+, Written in Verse, #BlackLivesMatter, Diversity

  • ISBN
    9780062990303
  • Binding
    Paperback
  • Category
    Young Adult Fiction
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BLOOD MOON
By: lucy cuthew | Published: September 2020

This powerful, timely novel in verse exposes provocative truths about periods, sex, shame, and going viral for all the wrong reasons. After school...

This powerful, timely novel in verse exposes provocative truths about periods, sex, shame, and going viral for all the wrong reasons. After school one day, Frankie, a lover of physics and astronomy, has her first sexual experience with quiet and gorgeous Benjamin--and gets her period. It's only blood, they agree. But soon a gruesome meme goes viral, turning an intimate, affectionate afternoon into something sordid, mortifying, and damaging. In the time it takes to swipe a screen, Frankie's universe implodes. Who can she trust? Not Harriet, her suddenly cruel best friend, and certainly not Benjamin, the only one who knows about the incident. As the online shaming takes on a horrifying life of its own, Frankie begins to wonder: is her real life over? Author Lucy Cuthew vividly portrays what it is to be a teen today with this fearless and ultimately uplifting novel in verse. Brimming with emotion, the story captures the intensity of friendships, first love, and female desire, while unflinchingly exploring the culture of online and menstrual shaming. Sure to be a conversation starter, Blood Moon is the unforgettable portrait of one girl's fight to reclaim her reputation and to stand up against a culture that says periods are dirty.

Theme: Written in Verse

  • ISBN
    9781536215038
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    Young Adult Fiction
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BURNED
By: ellen hopkins | Published: September 2013

Pattyn Von Stratten is searching for the love she isn’t getting from God or her family in this novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author...

Pattyn Von Stratten is searching for the love she isn’t getting from God or her family in this novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins. It all started with a dream. Just a typical fantasy, but for a girl raised in a religious—and abusive—family, a simple dream could be the first step toward eternal damnation. Now Pattyn Von Stratten has questions. Questions about God, and sex, and mostly love. Will she ever find it? Pattyn experiences the first stirrings of passion, but when her father catches her in a compromising position, events spiral out of control. Pattyn is sent to live with an aunt in the wilds of rural Nevada to find salvation and redemption. What she finds instead is love and acceptance, and for the first time she feels worthy of both—until she realizes that her old demons will not let her go. Those demons lead Pattyn down a path to hell—not to the place she learned about in sacrament meetings, but to an existence every bit as horrifying. In this gripping and masterful novel told in verse, Ellen Hopkins embarks on an emotional journey that ebbs and flows. From the highs of true love to the lows of loss and despair, Pattyn’s story is utterly compelling. You won’t want this story to end—but when it does, you can find out what’s next for Pattyn in the sequel, Smoke.

Theme: Written in Verse

  • ISBN
    9781442494619
  • Binding
    Paperback
  • Category
    Young Adult Fiction
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BURYING THE MOON
By: andree poulin | Published: September 2021

A beautifully illustrated novel in verse about a young Indian girl who tackles the taboos around sanitation in her village. In Latika's village in...

A beautifully illustrated novel in verse about a young Indian girl who tackles the taboos around sanitation in her village. In Latika's village in rural India, there are no toilets. No toilets mean that the women have to wait until night to do their business in a field. There are scorpions and snakes in the field, and germs that make people sick. For the girls in the village, no toilets mean leaving school when they reach puberty. No one in the village wants to talk about this shameful problem. But Latika has had enough. When a government representative visits their village, she sees her chance to make one of her dreams come true: the construction of public toilets, which would be safer for everybody in her village. This beautifully illustrated novel in verse shines a light on how a lack of access to sanitation facilities affects girls and women in many parts of the world.

Theme: Written in Verse, India, Diversity, Activism, Social Justice

  • ISBN
    9781773066042
  • Binding
    Hardcover Canadian
  • Category
    Intermediate Fiction
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CANYON'S EDGE
By: dusti bowling | Published: September 2020

A year after the death of her mother in a restaurant shooting, Nora is left struggling to stay alive when a climbing trip with her father goes...

A year after the death of her mother in a restaurant shooting, Nora is left struggling to stay alive when a climbing trip with her father goes terribly wrong.

Theme: Survival, Death & Grieving , Written in Verse

  • ISBN
    9780316494694
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    Intermediate Fiction
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CLOSER TO NOWHERE
By: ellen hopkins | Published: October 2020

For the most part, Hannah's life is just how she wants it. She has two supportive parents, she's popular at school, and she's been killing it at...

For the most part, Hannah's life is just how she wants it. She has two supportive parents, she's popular at school, and she's been killing it at gymnastics. But when her cousin Cal moves in with her family, everything changes. Cal tells half-truths and tall tales, pranks Hannah constantly, and seems to be the reason her parents are fighting more and more. Nothing is how it used to be. She knows that Cal went through a lot after his mom died and she is trying to be patient, but most days Hannah just wishes Cal never moved in. For his part, Cal is trying his hardest to fit in, but not everyone is as appreciative of his unique sense of humor and storytelling gifts as he is. Humor and stories might be his defense mechanism, but if Cal doesn't let his walls down soon, he might push away the very people who are trying their best to love him. Told in verse from the alternating perspectives of Hannah and Cal, this is a story of two cousins who are more alike than they realize and the family they both want to save.

Theme: Written in Verse, Perspective

  • ISBN
    9780593108611
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    Intermediate Fiction
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CRAZY MAN
By: pamela porter | Published: September 2005

It is 1965, and twelve-year-old Emaline lives on a wheat farm in southern Saskatchewan. Her family has fallen apart. When her beloved dog, Prince,...

It is 1965, and twelve-year-old Emaline lives on a wheat farm in southern Saskatchewan. Her family has fallen apart. When her beloved dog, Prince, chased a hare into the path of the tractor, she chased after him, and her dad accidentally ran over her leg with the discer, leaving her with a long convalescence and a permanent disability. But perhaps the worst thing from Emaline's point of view is that in his grief and guilt, her father shot Prince and then left Emaline and her mother on their own. Despite the neighbors' disapproval, Emaline's mother hires Angus, a patient from the local mental hospital, to work their fields. Angus is a red-haired giant whom the local kids tease and call the gorilla. Though the small town's prejudice creates a cloud of suspicion around Angus that nearly results in tragedy, in the end he becomes a force for healing as Emaline comes to terms with her injury and the loss of her father. In the tradition of novels such as Kevin Major's Ann and Seamus and Karen Hesse's Out of the Dust, novelist and poet Pamela Porter uses free verse to tell this moving, gritty story that is accessible to a wide range of ages and reading abilities.

Theme: Prejudice & Racism, Character Education, Bullying issues, Written in Verse

  • ISBN
    9780888996954
  • Binding
    Paperback Canadian
  • Category
    Intermediate Fiction
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DEEPEST BREATH
By: meg grehan | Published: February 2021

Originally published in Dublin, Ireland, by Little Island Books in 2019.

Theme: Written in Verse, LGBTQ2S+

  • ISBN
    9780358354758
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    Junior Fiction
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DEEPEST BREATH
By: meg grehan | Published: November 2022

Theme: Written in Verse, LGBTQ2S+

  • ISBN
    9780358732976
  • Binding
    Paperback
  • Category
    Junior Fiction
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DOG SAYS CAT SAYS
By: marilyn singer | Published: March 2022

Theme: Written in Verse

  • ISBN
    9780525553960
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    Picture Book
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DOOR OF NO RETURN
By: kwame alexander | Published: September 2022

"A novel in verse about an Asante boy who is captured and taken from his village during the nineteenth century."--

Theme: BIPOC , Diversity, Written in Verse

  • ISBN
    9780316441865
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    Junior Fiction
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Book cover of EB & FLOW
EB & FLOW
By: kelly baptist | Published: March 2023

A ten-day suspension has tweens De'Kari and Ebony seeing the world with a fresh perspective. Don't miss this poignant novel in verse from the...

A ten-day suspension has tweens De'Kari and Ebony seeing the world with a fresh perspective. Don't miss this poignant novel in verse from the award-winning author of Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero. Two kids. One fight. No one thinks they’re wrong. Flow I don’t even hit girls . . . is what I’m thinking. I roll my eyes, turn them to my shoes. Shoes I’ma wear every day till they fall off my feet. Eb It was all just an accident! Nobody was trying to mess up his Stupid Ugly Shoes. Now I’ve got my third suspension of seventh grade. Ebony and De’Kari (aka Flow) do not get along. How could they when their cafeteria scuffle ended with De'Kari's ruined shoes, Ebony on the ground, and both of them with ten days of at-home suspension? Now Eb and Flow have two weeks to think about and explain their behavior—to their families, to each other, and ultimately to themselves. Award-winning author Kelly J. Baptist delivers a novel in verse that follows Eb and Flow as they navigate their parallel lives. Single-parent homes, tight funds, and sibling dynamics provide a balancing act for the growing tweens. And whether they realize it or not, these two have a lot more in common than they think.

Theme: Written in Verse

  • ISBN
    9780593429136
  • Binding
    Hardcover
  • Category
    Junior Fiction
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