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Amber and clay
Par Laura Amy Schlitz. 2021
The Newbery Medal–winning author of Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! gives readers a virtuoso performance in verse in this profoundly original…
epic pitched just right for fans of poetry, history, mythology, and fantasy. Welcome to ancient Greece as only genius storyteller Laura Amy Schlitz can conjure it. In a warlike land of wind and sunlight, "ringed by a restless sea," live Rhaskos and Melisto, spiritual twins with little in common beyond the violent and mysterious forces that dictate their lives. A Thracian slave in a Greek household, Rhaskos is as common as clay, a stable boy worth less than a donkey, much less a horse. Wrenched from his mother at a tender age, he nurtures in secret, aided by Socrates, his passions for art and philosophy. Melisto is a spoiled aristocrat, a girl as precious as amber but willful and wild. She'll marry and be tamed—the curse of all highborn girls—but risk her life for a season first to serve Artemis, goddess of the hunt. Bound by destiny, Melisto and Rhaskos—Amber and Clay—never meet in the flesh. By the time they do, one of them is a ghost. But the thin line between life and death is just one boundary their unlikely friendship crosses. It takes an army of snarky gods and fearsome goddesses, slaves and masters, mothers and philosophers to help shape their story into a gorgeously distilled, symphonic tour de force. Blending verse, prose, and illustrated archaeological "artifacts," this is a tale that vividly transcends time, an indelible reminder of the power of language to illuminate the over—and underworlds of human historyJazz owls: a novel of the Zoot Suit Riots
Par Margarita Engle, Rudy Gutierrez. 2018
A novel in verse. In early 1940s Los Angeles, Mexican Americans Marisela and Lorena work in canneries all day, then…
jitterbug with sailors all night with their zoot-suit wearing younger brother, Ray. But one night, racial violence leads to murder. Some violence. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2018The colors of the rain
Par R. L. Toalson. 2018
A novel in verse. In 1972, after his father is killed, Paulie is sent to live with his Aunt Bee…
in Houston, a city fighting desegregation. But as Paulie gets into fights with a black student, he is forced to understand the circumstances surrounding his father's death. For grades 4-7. 2018White Rose
Par Kip Wilson. 2019
A novel in verse. Sophie Scholl, a young German college student, challenges the Nazi regime during World War II as…
part of the White Rose, a nonviolent resistance group. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2019It rained warm bread: Moishe Moskowitz's story of hope
Par Hope Anita Smith, Lea Lyon, Gloria Moskowitz-Sweet. 2019
A novel in verse and fictionalized account of the experiences of a Polish Jew, Moishe, who, with his parents, brother,…
and a sister, struggles to survive the Nazi invasion and the Holocaust. For grades 4-7 and older readers. 2019You can fly: the Tuskegee Airmen
Par Carole Boston Weatherford, Jeffery Boston Weatherford. 2016
History in verse that celebrates the Tuskegee Airmen. Recounts the challenges faced by the African American pilots in WWII, who…
triumphed in the skies and blew past the color barriers as fighter squadrons. For grades 5-8. 2016Full cicada moon
Par Marilyn Hilton. 2015
Novel in verse. In 1969, seventh-grader Mimi and her family move to an all-white town in Vermont, where Mimi's mixed-race…
background and interest in "boyish" topics like astronomy and carpentry make her feel like an outsider. For grades 4-7. 2015Inside out & back again
Par Thanhha Lai, Thanhhà Lai. 2011
Ten-year-old H ̉writes poems to chronicle the life-changing year of 1975, when H,̉ her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam…
and resettle in Alabama. For grades 4-7. National Book Award. 2011All the broken pieces: a novel in verse
Par Ann E. Burg. 2009
Matt Pin was nine when he was airlifted out of Vietnam in 1975 and adopted by an American couple. Two…
years later Matt is still haunted by a terrible secret from his war-torn past, one that his new parents and Vietnam veterans help him confront. For grades 5-8. 2009African town
Par Charles Waters. 2022
Chronicling the story of the last Africans brought illegally to America in 1860, African Town is a powerful and stunning…
novel-in-verse. In 1860, long after the United States outlawed the importation of enslaved laborers, 110 men, women and children from Benin and Nigeria were captured and brought to Mobile, Alabama aboard a ship called Clotilda . Their journey includes the savage Middle Passage and being hidden in the swamplands along the Alabama River before being secretly parceled out to various plantations, where they made desperate attempts to maintain both their culture and also fit into the place of captivity to which they'd been delivered. At the end of the Civil War, the survivors created a community for themselves they called African Town, which still exists to this day. Told in 14 distinct voices, including that of the ship that brought them to the American shores and the founder of African Town, this powerfully affecting historical novel-in-verse recreates a pivotal moment in US and world history, the impacts of which we still feel today. * This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF with a glossary and additional resourcesThe gentleman bat
Par Abraham Schroeder, Piotr Parda. 2014
T4: a novel in verse
Par Ann Clare LeZotte. 2008
Paula Becker, who is deaf, is thirteen years old when the Nazi party takes control of Germany. It is a…
time when people with disabilities are ordered to be killed in Hitler's Tiergartenstrasse 4, nicknamed T4. She escapes a raid, but her new world is one of fear, desperation, and uncertainty as she struggles to survive. Her stories are told in free verse. For grades 6-9Brewster the rooster
Par Devin Scillian, Lee White. 2007
The most dazzling girl in berlin
Par Kip Wilson. 2022
A fascinating historical novel about Hilde, an orphan who experiences Berlin on the cusp of World War II as she…
discovers her own voice and sexuality, ultimately finding a family when she gets a job at a gay cabaret, by award-winning author Kip Wilson. On her eighteenth birthday, Hilde leaves her orphanage in 1930s Berlin, and heads out into the world to discover her place in it. But finding a job is hard, at least until she stumbles into Café Lila, a vibrant cabaret full of expressive customers. Rosa, one of the club's waitresses and performers, immediately takes Hilde under her wing. As the café denizens slowly embrace Hilde, and she embraces them in turn, she discovers her voice and her own blossoming feelings for Rosa. But Berlin is in turmoil. Between the elections, protests in the streets, worsening antisemitism and anti-homosexual sentiment, and the beginning seeds of unrest in Café Lila itself, Hilde will have to decide what's best for her future . . . and what it means to love a place on the cusp of warSold
Par Patricia McCormick. 2006
Free verse poems tell the story of thirteen-year-old Nepalese schoolgirl Lakshmi who is sold into prostitution by her gambling stepfather.…
In India, Lakshmi discovers hope when an American comes to the brothel to rescue the girls. Some descriptions of sex and some violence. For senior high readers. 2006House without walls: May 10, 1979 to June 7, 1980
Par Ching Yeung Russell. 2019
A novel in verse. Eleven-year-old Lam, her brothers, and other ethnic Chinese flee Vietnam in 1979, embarking on a long…
and perilous journey toward a refugee camp, where Lam finds new hope and happiness. For grades 5-8. 2019Death coming Up the Hill
Par Chris Crowe. 2020
Ashe Douglas keeps a weekly record of historical and personal events in 1968, the year he turns seventeen, including the…
escalating war in Vietnam; assassinations, rampant racism, and rioting; his first girlfriend; his parents' sepration' and a longed-for sister. UnratedWith a star in my hand: Rubén Darío, poetry hero
Par Margarita Engle. 2020
A novel in verse about the life and work of Rubén Darío, a Nicaraguan poet who started life as an…
abandoned child and grew to become the father of a new literary movement. Includes historical notes. For junior and senior high readers. 2020Mammoths on the move
Par Lisa Wheeler, Kurt Cyrus. 2006
Join a pack of woolly mammoths as they trek south for the winter, braving fierce storms, deadly predators, and raging…
rivers while making their slow journey across the gorgeous unspoiled lands of this continent until finally they reach their goal. The author draws readers into the mystery of prehistory and of one of the most awesome beasts to ever walk the earth. For grades K-3The Canterbury tales (Bantam Classics Ser.)
Par Geoffrey Chaucer. 1964
Original Middle English and modern English translation of Chaucer8́099s fourteenth-century classic in which pilgrims agree to a storytelling contest as…
they travel to the shrine of Thomas á Becket in Canterbury