Thanhha Lai's verse novel Inside Out & Back Again won the National Book Award in 2011 and Karen Hesse's Out of the Dust won the Newbery in 1998. There's a wide controversy concerning how exactly to define a verse novel . . .some poets believe that verse novels betray the poetic form, some novelists think you can't create a powerful story writing in verse, others ask why bother, others say the verse novel is one of the oldest forms of literature. What do you think? Here are five critically-acclaimed verse novels for children and teens to get you thinking about this popular genre.
Street Love by Walter Dean Myers (Amistad, $7.99)
Keesha's House by Helen Frost (Farrar, Strauz & Giroux, $9.99)
Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson (Speak-Penguin, $7.99)
Heartbeat by Sharon Creech (HarperCollins, $5.99)
Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate (Squarefish, $6.99)
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