Best Poetry & Novels in Verse books for young adult readers, including adult-YA crossover books.
YA & Adult-YA Crossovers:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Total books found: 68
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Island Creatures
by Margarita Engle
7/8/2025, 272 pages.
From award-winning author Margarita Engle comes an inspiring and luminous love story told in verse about childhood friends, once lost and now reconnected, and their fight to ...
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Solo
by Gráinne O'Brien
5/27/2025, 192 pages.
A YA verse novel about first love and friendship, lost and found.
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I Can't Even Think Straight
by Dean Atta
5/6/2025, 304 pages.
In this emotional novel in verse by the Stonewall Award–winning author of The Black Flamingo, a queer biracial teen confronts issues of race, privilege, class, and sexuality ...
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I Am the Swarm
by Hayley Chewins
3/25/2025, 336 pages.
A propulsive YA novel in verse that blends the contemporary magic of Jandy Nelson with the simmering feminist rage of Laurie Halse Anderson's Shout.
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When We Ride
by Rex Ogle
3/25/2025, 336 pages.
Rex Ogle explores bonds of loyalty and friendship and how they're tested by drugs and violence in this propulsive novel-in-verse.
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One Step Forward
by Marcie Flinchum Atkins
3/4/2025, 320 pages.
One Step Forward is a compelling debut YA historical fiction novel in verse about Matilda Young—the youngest American suffragist imprisoned for picketing the White House to ...
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Knucklehead
by Tony Keith Jr.
2/25/2025, 128 pages.
While society often assigns the label "knucklehead" to kids with attitude problems, this brilliant and electric poetry collection by spoken word poet and hip-hop educator Tony ...
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(S)Kin
by Ibi Zoboi
2/11/2025, 400 pages.
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ibi Zoboi comes her groundbreaking contemporary fantasy debut—a novel in verse based on Caribbean folklore&#...
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Where the Heart Should Be
by Sarah Crossan
1/21/2025, 400 pages.
In 1847, everything in Ireland was falling apart—but sixteen-year-old Nell was falling in love. Carnegie Medal winner Sarah Crossan's first historical novel-in-verse is a ...
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When the Mapou Sings
by Nadine Pinede
12/3/2024, 432 pages.
Infused with magical realism, this story blends first love and political intrigue with a quest for justice and self-determination in 1930s Haiti.
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