Tag Archives: novel-in-verse

Inside Out & Back Again

Posted on December 12, 2011 by

National Book Award winner Thanhha Lai’s beautiful book, Inside Out & Back Again, is Hà’s poetic lament through the Vietnam War, escaping her country and starting life in Alabama as a sponsored refugee family while not knowing the fate of … Continue reading →

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Pearl Verses the World

Posted on November 7, 2011 by

Miss Bruff wants us to write poems. I am. Miss Bruff wants poems that rhyme. Mine don’t. Rhyme is okay sometimes, but my poems don’t rhyme and neither do I. At school, Pearl is in a group of one and … Continue reading →

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Planet Middle School

Posted on October 18, 2011 by

Joylin is not a girly girl, but middle school has her trying out skirts and heels that just don’t feel right to this basketball-lover.  She doesn’t understand the new feelings she’s experiencing, and the poems in Planet Middle School pour … Continue reading →

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