POETRY in FICTION

 

  You can find poetry anthologies and specific poets' works in

  the 811s (821, 831, 841, 851, etc.). Featured here are novels

  told in verse. Each book includes title, author, call number

  (where to find it at Uni!), and a short description from NoveList.

 

 

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Fiction Told in Verse

 

    Keesha's House

    Frost, Helen

    Fiction F9293k

    Seven teens facing such problems as pregnancy, closeted homosexuality,

    and abuse each describe in poetic forms what caused them to leave home

    and where they found home again.

 

 

    Who Killed Mr. Chippendale?: A Mystery in Poems

    Glenn, Mel

    Fiction G487w 1996

    Free verse poems describe the reactions of students, colleagues, and

    others when a high school teacher is shot to death as the school day begins.

 

 

 

    Out of the Dust

    Hesse, Karen

    Fiction H4632o 1999

    In a series of poems, fourteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of

    living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years

    of the Depression.

 

 

 

    The First Part Last

    Johnson, Angela

    Fiction J6303f

    Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father

    and must care for his adored baby daughter.

 

 

 

 

    The Realm of Possibility

    Levithan, David

    Fiction L579re

    A variety of students at the same high school describe their ideas,

    experiences, and relationships in a series of interconnected free verse stories.

 

 

 

 

    One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies

    Sones, Sonya

    Fiction So571o

    Fifteen-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend,

    her aunt, and her mother's grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to

    Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who divorced

    her mother before Ruby was born.