BMAB Recommends: Poetry / Stories in Verse - Age 12

In this poetic memoir, which won the Pura Belpré Author Award, was a YALSA Nonfiction Finalist, and was named a Walter Dean Myers Award Honoree, ac...

Told through medieval poetic forms and in the voices of the people and objects in Joan of Arc's life, (including her family and even the trees, clo...

"Koertge's pleasing variety of verse -- a villanelle here, a sestina there -- is a seamless fit for his story and characters." -- The Horn Book (st...

Minos thought he could Pull a fast one On me, Poseidon! God of the Sea! But I'm the last one On whom you Should try such a thing. The nerve of that...

Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an...

A "collection of free verse poems [that explores] how girls are taught to think about themselves, their bodies, their friends--as consumers, as obj...