Connecting with Poetry in Teen Fiction
****Not for novels in verse necessarily. This list is for books with characters who connect with poetry.
After the Kiss by Terra Elan McVoy
- Pub Date: Jan 2010
- High School interest
- See also: Multiple Narrators, Senior Year
- Becca and Camille lives intersect over a boy. The text includes many references to famous poets and poems.
The Language Inside by Holly Thompson
- Pub Date: 2013
- Middle and high school interest
- Emma volunteers at a long-term care center where she reads poetry to a patient.
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
- Pub Date: 2018
- Middle/high school interest
- See also: Forbidden Romance, Mother/Daughter
- Xiomara connects with poetry and joins the poetry club at a time when she really needs to express herself.
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