If you haven’t yet read a novel-in-verse to your class, what are you waiting for?
A few favourites in a growing genre:
- Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
- Odder by Katherine Applegate
- Izzy Kline Has Butterflies by Beth Ain
- Missing Mike by Shari Green
- And then, Boom! by Lisa Fipps
- Deep Water by Jamie Sumner
- Murray Out of Water by Taylor Tracy
- Mid-Air by Alicia D. Williams
- Ebb and Flow by Heather Smith
- Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
- Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
- The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
- Becoming Muhammad Ali by Kwame Alexander and James Patterson (prose and verse)
- Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds *12 and up
Always, always read them yourself first: many of these books pack a powerful punch!