Rapunzel Reads
  • Fiction
  • Nonfiction
  • Who We Are
  • For Older Readers
  • Submit a Review
  • Author Interviews
  • Books of the Year
    • 2022 Books of the Year
    • 2021 Books of the Year
    • 2020 Books of the Year
    • 2019 Books of the Year
  • Audiobooks
  • Picture Books
  • Book Group Reads
  • Booklists

7 Great Books Written in Verse

7/28/2022

0 Comments

 
Picture
By Ella and Lina

We love books in verse! Beautiful, lyrical, and absorbing, these are often some of our favorite stories, and the ones we remember most vividly years after we read them for the first time. 

Here are seven of our favorite books in verse! 
Picture

​The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo - Xiomara has learned to stay quiet, to hide her vulnerability behind her fists and ferocity. But when she's introduced to spoken-word poetry, she discovers a whole new world​—one in which, perhaps, she can finally speak her truth. 

Read our full review here! 
​Wave ​by Diana Farid - Thirteen-year-old Ava lives for surfing with her best friend Phoenix, singing with her friends, and reading Rumi's poetry--the times when she feels like she truly belongs. When Phoenix's lymphoma resurfaces, she must draw on every bit of hope and resilience within her to help him fight for survival. 

Read our full review here, and our interview with the author here! 
Picture
Picture

​Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga - When tensions rise dangerously in Jude's home city in Syria, she and her mother move to America, where she finds challenges, prejudice, and new friends--and a place which, slowly but surely, begins to feel like home. 

​Read our full review here, and our interview with the author here! 

​Audacity ​by Melanie Crowder - When anti-Semitic violence forces Clara Lemlich's family to flee to America, she's stunned by the dreadful conditions young immigrant women face in the factories she's hired at. But involvement in the developing (and male-dominated) labor movement could put all her other aspirations--education, medical school--at risk. 

​Read our full review here! 
Picture
Picture


​Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson -  In her verse autobiography, Jacqueline Woodson narrates her childhood growing up in the south, and her growing understanding of who she is and what she believes in. 

​Read our full review here! 


​Moo ​by Sharon Creech - When Reena and her family move to Maine, she's none too pleased to be stuck caring for her neighbor's ornery cow--but maybe the irascible Zora will help her find a place in her new home. 

Read our full review here! 
Picture
Picture

​​Emmy in the Key of Code by Aimee Lucido -  Emmy has always loved music, but she's never found a way to make her own--not
until she stumbles across the computer lab at her new school, and discovers that maybe coding can be music, too.

​Read our full review here, and our interview with the author here!  
0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Book Reviews By & For Kids

    Everyone knows that Rapunzel spent her early years locked up in a tower. We’d like to think she read plenty of books to while away the time, and that she’d appreciate our own favorites.

    Founded in 2014, our reviews focus on great books for middle grade (MG) readers. Beginning in 2018, we began adding selected Young Adult (YA) books as well, but only if we really love them and think Rapunzel Reads followers will too. Favorite picture books have their own page.


    Rapunzel Reads Profile Photo

    Follow us on Instagram!

    Follow us for book reviews and recommendations, including whenever we post a review! 

    Instagram: 
    @RapunzelReadsBooks

    Picture

    Check out our favorite books of 2022! 

    Read all about the 10 best books we read in 2022!

    Click here to read what we loved most about our top books. 

    Young Adult Reviews! 

    We're now featuring reviews for YA (ages 12+) books alongside our middle-grade reviews on our main page! (If you're not sure if a book is young adult, check the age range--if it's 12, 13, or 14+, it's YA.)

    ​Looking for more YA recommendations? Until 2022, we had a separate For Older Readers page, where we highlighted over two dozen awesome YA books. Check it out here! 


    Categories

    All
    Adventure
    Ages 10+
    Ages 11+
    Ages 12+
    Ages 13+
    Ages 14+
    Ages 5+
    Ages 6+
    Ages 7+
    Ages 8+
    Ages 9+
    Animal Stories
    Audiobook
    Author Interviews
    Bookgroup Pick
    Booklists
    Books Of The Year
    Classic
    Cover Reveals
    Diversity
    Fairytale Retellings
    Family
    Fantasy
    Fiction
    Friends
    Futuristic
    Graphic Novel
    Historical Fantasy
    Historical Fiction
    Horses
    Humorous
    Illustrated
    In Verse
    LGBTQ+
    Magic
    Mystery
    Myths & Legends
    Realistic Fiction
    Romance
    Science Fiction
    Sequels
    Series
    Short Stories
    Siblings
    Sisters
    Superheroes
    Young Adult

    Archives

    April 2023
    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    September 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    March 2016
    January 2016
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    June 2015
    April 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.