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Ocotober mourning: A song for Matthew Shepard by Leslea Newman (Nonfiction 811.54 NEW)
Relates, from various points of view, events from the night of October 6, 1998, when twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was lured out of a Wyoming bar, savagely beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die.
Shakespeare bats cleanup by Ronald Koertge (FIC KOE) REALISTIC
When a fourteen-year-old baseball player catches mononucleosis, he discovers that keeping a journal and experimenting with poetry not only helps fill the time, it also helps him deal with life, love, and loss.
Shout: a poetry memoir by Laurie Halse Anderson (Nonfiction 811.54 AND)
"A memoir [that] shares the author's life, covering her rape at thirteen, her difficult early childhood, and her experiences surrounding her publication of 'Speak'"--OCLC.
Sold by Patricia McCormick (FIC MCC) REALISTIC
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi lives in Nepal dreaming of a boy she wants to marry. Suddenly her father sells her into prostitution to pay family debts. She is beaten and starved until she gives in. Later an American comes to rescue many girls. The text is written as a prose poem full of sorrow and fear.
Street Love
By Walter Dean Myers
(FIC MYE ROMANCE)
A story in free verse in which Damien, a seventeen-year-old from Harlem, takes a bold step to ensure that he and his new love, Junice, will not be separated.

The Crossover
by Kwame Alexander (FIC ALE) SPORTS
Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
The Good Braider: A novel By Terry Farish (FIC FAR) REALISTIC
Follows Viola as she survives brutality in war-torn Sudan, makes a perilous journey, lives as a refugee in Egypt, and finally reaches Portland, Maine, where her quest for freedom and security is hampered by memories of past horrors and the traditions her mother and other Sudanese adults hold dear. Includes historical facts and a map of Sudan.
The poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (FIC ACE) REALISTIC
"Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers--especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about.

If you Like Poetry...
Here are some books written in verse!

Our Poetry Section is located in Nonfiction by the computers in the 800’s. Look for the number signs and find the beginning of the 800’s (808 section and 811 section has the most Poetry books but browse all the 800’s!). Let your media center staff know if you need help! Many of the books in this brochure are also in the fiction section.

Find the book using author’s last name (use the parenthesis to help you)

Saving Red by Sonya Sones. (FIC SON) REALISTIC
Right before winter break, fourteen-year-old Molly Rosenberg reluctantly volunteers to participate in Santa Monica's annual homeless count, just to get her school's community service requirement out of the way. But when she ends up meeting Red, a spirited homeless girl only a few years older than she is, Molly makes it her mission to reunite her with her family in time for Christmas. This turns out to be extremely difficult because Red refuses to talk about her past. There are things Molly won't talk about either. Like the awful thing that happened last winter. She may never be ready to talk about that. Not to Red, or to Cristo, the soulful boy she meets while riding the Ferris wheel one afternoon. When Molly realizes that the friends who Red keeps mentioning are nothing more than voices inside Red's head, she becomes even more concerned about her well-being. How will Molly keep her safe until she can figure out a way to get Red home?
Crank by Ellen Hopkins (FIC HOP) REALISTIC
Kristina Georgia Snow's life is turned upside-down, when she visits her absentee father, gets turned on to the drug "crank", becomes addicted, and is led down a desperate path that threatens her mind, soul, and her life.

Amiri & Odette: a love story by Walter Dean Myers (FIC MYE) ROMANCE
Presents a modern, urban retelling in verse of the ballet in which brave Amiri falls in love with beautiful Odette and fights evil Big Red for her on the streets of the Swan Lake Projects.
Beanball by Gene Fehler (FIC FEH) SPORTS
Relates, from diverse points of view, events surrounding the critical injury of popular and talented high school athlete, Luke "Wizard" Wallace, when he is hit in the face by a fastball.
Because I am furniture by Thalia Chaltas (FIC CHA) REALISTIC
The youngest of three siblings, fourteen-year-old Anke feels both relieved and neglected that her father abuses her brother and sister but ignores her, but when she catches him with one of her friends, she finally becomes angry enough to take action.
Bruiser by Neal Shusterman (FIC SHU) MYSTERY
Inexplicable events start to occur when sixteen-year-old twins Tennyson and Brontë befriend a troubled and misunderstood outcast, aptly nicknamed Bruiser, and his little brother, Cody.

A girl named Mister by Nikki Grimes (FIC GRI) REALISTIC
While Undine is away on vacation in Greece, Trout's obsession to learn whatever he can about her magical powers leads him to Maxine Haddon, a woman who will do anything to obtain the magic his friend possesses.
I don’t want to be crazy: a memoir by Samantha Schutz (B SCH)BIOGRAPHY
A harrowing, remarkable poetry memoir about one girl's struggle with anxiety disorder"--Provided by publisher.
Identical by Ellen Hopkins (FIC HOP) REALISTIC
Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart.
My book of life by Angel by Martine Leavitt (FIC LEA) REALISTIC
Sixteen-year-old Angel struggles to free herself from the trap of prostitution in which she is caught.