I’ve missed National Poetry Month; I don’t feel the same compulsion to read poetry if I don’t have to find a poem I love to post each day. I’m going to try to get back to it a bit more. Maybe I’ll even make it a weekly thing. For today, here is an excerpt from [...]

Tags: family problems, mental illness, novels in verse, sisters
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Restless souls and empty hearts. Brooklyn can’t sleep. Her boyfriend, Lucca died a year ago, and now their friend Gabe has died of an overdose. Every time she closes her eyes, Gabe’s ghost is there, waiting for her. She has no idea what he wants or why it isn’t Lucca chasing her through her dreams. [...]

Tags: ghosts, grief, interpersonal relations, nightmares, novels in verse, romance
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Here’s what I know about the realm of possibility— it is always expanding, it is never what you think it is. Everything around us was once deemed impossible. From the airplane overhead to the phones in our pockets to the choir girl putting her arm around the metalhead. As hard as it is for us [...]

Tags: conduct of life, high schools, interpersonal relations, novels in verse
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Lost and alone…down the rabbit hole Years have passed since Alice lost her mother to cancer, but time hasn’t quite healed the wound. Alice copes the best she can, by writing her music, losing herself in the love of her boyfriend, and distancing herself from her father and his new wife. But when a deadly [...]

Tags: novels in verse, stepfamilies, survival
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Anke’s father is abusive. But not to her. He attacks her brother and sister, but she’s just an invisible witness in a house of horrors, on the brink of disappearing altogether. Until she makes the volleyball team at school. At first just being exhausted after practice feels good, but as Anke becomes part of the [...]

Tags: child abuse, family problems, high schools, novels in verse
Filed under: Book Review