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Tag: Novels in Verse
Book Review: A Two-Placed Heart by Doan Phuong Nguyen
This well-written story of adjusting to life in a new place and a new culture is a compassionate look at identity, history, belonging, and understanding. An excellent read.
Book Review: Kareem Between by Shifa Saltagi Safadi
Told in verse and full of references to books Kareem has read, this is a beautiful story of hope, empathy, confidence, and courage.
From Cartagena With Love, a guest post by Juan Vidal
When I started working on my novel A Second Chance on Earth, I wanted to capture, in verse, the beauty and complexity of a Colombia that I love so intensely.
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Book Review: Are You Nobody Too? by Tina Cane
This quiet look at identity and loneliness will appeal to readers who appreciate the brevity of the verse format and who like a character-driven story.
Memories, Musings and Wishes about Middle Grade Novels in Verse, a guest post by Jean Holmblad
For over 20 years, it has been my great joy to immerse myself in novels in verse. Middle grade novels in verse have had a long, continually developing history.
Take Five: Middle Grade Novels in Verse
Just in time for National Poetry Month, check out these novels in verse!
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Wild Dreamers, a guest post by Margarita Engle
When we listen to each other’s poems and stories, our minds grow wings. We visit each other’s worlds. We begin to understand each other. We become neighbors instead of strangers.
Book Review: One Big Open Sky by Lesa Cline-Ransome
As full of beauty as it is hardship, this is an excellent and important read.
Women of the West, a guest post by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Careful research shatters the myth of the American West but it opens us up to the untold and important stories of people whose lives were as varied and vast as the landscape under which they traveled.
WAVE — How Resilience Shines in This Ocean Inspired Verse Novel, a guest post by Diana Farid
When I think of what it means to stay afloat, I think of resilience. I was moved to write WAVE because I had an inspiring vision of what waves can teach us about resilience.
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