Told in verse, seventeen-year-old Eliza, an environmental activist, is navigating the after-effects of a hurricane that devastated her coastal town while falling for Milo, a rich tourist who is at the center of a redevelopment that could put her community in danger--again.

After a shark attack causes the amputation of her right arm, fifteen-year-old Jane, an aspiring artist, struggles to come to terms with her loss and the changes it imposes on her day-to-day life and her plans for the future.

May is healping out on a neighbor's homestead---just until Christmas, her pa promises. But when a terrible turn of events leaves her all alone, she must try to find food and fuel---and courage---to make it through the approaching winter. This gorgeous novel in verse by Caroline Starr Rose will transport you to the Kansas prairie---to the endless grassland, and to the suffocating closeness of the sod house where May is stranded. May's straightforward...

While under house arrest for one year for stealing a wallet, young Timothy keeps free-verse notes on his life in a court-ordered journal as he deals with having a sick brother and tries to stay out of trouble.

This novel in verse tells Kevin's journey from bully to being bullied, and how he learns about friendship, family and his talent for poetry.

A new girl at school throws nine-year-old Eleanor's relationship with her best friend Pearl into disarray.

What can one voice do? As the first rumblings of the pandemic sound around Garvey, he hardly notices. Caught up with hi fiends, school, chorus, and his newfound relationship with his father, he doesn't imagine that the new disease adults are talking about could touch him. But it will. When everything changes, when fear moves in, and when all seems dark, Garvey feels helpless. Yet one voice-- Garvey's voice--can be a powerful spark in the dark.

"Odder spends her days off the coast of central California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she's known. She's a fearless daredevil, curious to a fault. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a hungry great white shark, her life takes a dramatic turn, one that will challenge everything she believes about herself--and about the humans who hope to save her"--

Eleanor is off to summer camp, which she finds is full of bugs, there is no electricity & the food is terrible. Worst off all, she is made to take part in swimming! It takes a few days before Eleanor begins to enjoy herself, discovering that actualy camp is just full of special surprises.

When Odette's father becomes a Nazi prisoner-of-war and the Paris police begin arresting Jews, her mother sends Odette to hide in the Catholic French countryside where she must keep many secrets to survive.