Stories in Verse Fiction Title: After the Death of Anna Gonzales Author: Terri Fields Summary: High school classmates and teachers react in alternating voices to the suicide of teenager Anna Gonzales. Title: Bronx Masquerade Author: Nikki Grimes Summary: The creation of open-mike sessions in a high school English class allows students at a Bronx high school an opportunity to share their poetry and reveal their true selves to their classmates. Title: Crashboomlove: A Novel in Verse Author: Juan Felipe Herrera Summary: Sixteen-year-old Cesar Garcia struggles to find his place among his peers after his father leaves home. Title: Frenchtown Summer Author: Robert Cormier Summary: Its 1938, and Eugene has his first paper route and his first love during a hot summer in Massachusetts. Title: Love That Dog Author: Sharon Creech Summary: Jack learns that reading and writing poetry can help him get through his biggest loss, and even make him happy. Title: Make Lemonade Author: Virginia Euwer Wolff Summary: Determined to be the first person in her family to go on to college, 14-year-old LaVaughn takes a job babysitting for the children of 17-year-old, disorganized Jolly. Title: Out of the Dust Author: Karen Hesse Summary: Teenager Billie Jo describes the hardships of living on a wheat farm in Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl years of the Depression. Title: Seventeen: A Novel in Prose Poems Author: Liz Rosenberg Summary: Seventeen-year-old Stephanie experiences her first love and deals with her fear of inheriting her mothers mental illness. Title: Shakespeare Bats Cleanup Author: Ron Koertge Summary: Fourteen-year-old Kevin, a baseball star, develops a taste for writing poetry when he is stuck in bed with mono. Title: Soul Moon Soup Author: Lindsay Lee Johnson Summary: Phoebe Rose goes to live with her grandmother after she and her mother find themselves homeless. Title: Split Image: A Story in Poems Author: Mel Glenn Summary: A school community reflects on the seemingly perfect Laura Li and her life at Tower High School. Title: True Believer Author: Virginia Euwer Wolff Summary: In this sequel to Make Lemonade, LaVaughn faces a new set of emotions as she develops her first crush, grows distant from her friends, and tries to rise to the occasion, which is life. Title: What My Mother Doesnt Know Author: Sonya Sones Summary: Sophie tells the secrets of her friendships, her school, and her heart-stoppingly riveting love life. Title: Who Will Tell My Brother? Author: Marlene Carvell Summary: A Native American teenager learns about his family and his community during his lone struggle to remove offensive mascots from his high school. Title: Witness Author: Karen Hesse Summary: Eleven characters, including an African-American girl and a Jewish girl, describe a terrifying year in the 1920s in which the Ku Klux Klan arrives in their small Vermont town. Non-Fiction Title: Becoming Joe DiMaggio Author: Maria Testa Summary: Joseph Paul learns about baseball, honor, courage, compassion and perseverance from his grandfather while listening to baseball games on the radio together. Call Number: 811.54 TES Title: Carver, A Life in Poems Author: Marilyn Nelson Summary: A poetic chronology of the remarkable life of George Washington Carver  a private, scholarly, religious man of great social purpose. Call Number: 811.54 NEL Title: Foreign Exchange: A Mystery in Poems Author: Mel Glenn Summary: Community members share their thoughts following the murder of a high school student who had recently moved to their town. Call Number: 811.54 GLE Title: Girl Coming In for a Landing: A Novel in Poems Author: April Halprin Wayland Summary: A girl wrestles with the triumphs and tribulations of a year in high school. Call Number: 811.54 WAY Title: Jinx Author: Margaret Wild Summary: Jen nicknames herself Jinx after two boyfriends die in rapid succession. Call Number: 811.54 WIL Title: Jump Ball: A Basketball Season in Poems Author: Mel Glenn Summary: This is an account of a pivotal and tragic season for the Tower High School basketball team. Call Number: 811.54 GLE Title: Learning to Swim: A Memoir Author: Ann Warren Turner Summary: The author uses the voice of a child to recount the summer of her sixth year when she was sexually abused by a neighbor. Call Number: 811.54 TUR Title: Locomotion Author: Jacqueline Woodson Summary: Eleven-year-old Lonnie finds that poetry helps him deal with the death of his parents, being separated from his younger sister, and life in a foster home. Call Number: 811.54 WOO Title: Loose Threads Author: Lorie Ann Grover Summary: Seventh-grader Kay Garber faces her grandmothers battle with breast cancer. Call Number: 811.6 GRO Title: Running Back to Ludie Author: Angela Johnson Summary: A teenage girl thinks often of her mother, Ludie, who left home when the girl was very young. Call Number: 811.54 JOH Title: Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy Author: Sonya Sones Summary: What do you do when your older sister has a mental breakdown? Call Number: 811.54 SON Title: The Brimstone Journals Author: Ron Koertge Summary: Fifteen students at a suburban high school anticipate the possibility of a school shooting. Call Number: 811.54 KOE Title: The Taking of Room 114: A Hostage Drama in Poems Author: Mel Glenn Summary: A high school classroom is taken hostage on the last day of school. Call Number: 811.54 GLE Title: Who Killed Mr. Chippendale?: A Mystery in Poems Author: Mel Glenn Summary: Students and staff try to piece together the circumstances surrounding the shooting death of a teacher. Call Number: 811.54 GLE Title: You Remind Me of You: A Poetry Memoir Author: Eireann Corrigan Summary: The true story of Eireann Corrigans descent into a severe eating disorder, and how she survived. Call Number: 811.6 COR