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King Science Library: Poetry

King Science & Technology Magnet Library

Novels in Verse (click to open in the library catalog)

A Girl Named Mister by Nikki Grimes

Audacity by Melanie Crowder

The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta

Caminar by Skila Brown

The Crossover by Kwame Alexander

Garvey's Choice by Nikki Grimes

Inside Out & Back Again by Thannha Lai

Moo by Sharon Creech

Punching the Air
by Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam

Solo by Kwame Alexander

Addie on the Inside by James Howe

Becoming Muhammad Ali
by James Patterson & Kwame Alexander

Booked by Kwame Alexander

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

Emmy in the Key of Code by Aimee Lucido

Hate That Cat by Sharon Creech

Knockout by K.A. Holt

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir by Nikki Grimes

Rebound by Kwame Alexander

White Rose by Kip Wilson

All of Me by Chris Baron

Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson

Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes

The Colors of the Rain by R.L. Toalson

Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate

Love That Dog by Sharon Creech

Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga

Serafina's Promise by Ann E. Burg

All the Broken Pieces by Ann E. Burg

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Crossing Stones by Helen Frost

Forget Me Not by Ellie Terry

House Arrest by K.A. Holt

Lifeboat 12 by Susan Hood

May B. by Caroline Starr Rose

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Shark Girl by Kelly Bingham

Under the Mesquite
by Guadalupe Garcia McCall

Words with Wings by Nikki Grimes

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