middle grade novels in verse: 2025

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4 participants (9 books)

01 Jan 2025—01 Dec 2025

Overview

- middle grade (& up to you — nearby children’s & YA) novels in verse
- diversity in writer & protagonist identities encouraged! 

I will be reading at least
  1. LGBTQ+ author
  2. disabled or neurodivergent author
  3. author outside the US
  4. black author 
  5. indigenous author
  6. immigrant author

IDEAS:

Book ideas include:

(Newer ones - last 5-10)

  • Alone
  • Before the Ever After
  • The Canyon's Edge
  •  Closer to Nowhere 
  • The Colors of the Rain
  • The Deepest Breath
  • The Door of No Return 
  • Forget-Me-Not
  • Good Different
  • How to Find What You're Not Looking For
  • I Am Kavi
  •  The Land of Cranes
  • The Lonely Book
  • Macy McMillian and the Rainbow Goddess
  • The Magical Imperfect
  • Mirror to Mirror
  • The Moon Within 
  • No Matter the Distance
  • Other Words for Home
  • Rez Dogs
  • Ruptured
  •  A Seed in the Sun 
  • Something Like Home
  • Starfish
  • The One Thing You'd Save
  • Unsettled
  • A Work in Progress 

(From 5+ years ago)
  •  The Crossover
  • Heartbeat
  •  House Arrest
  •  Locomotion
  • Love that Dog

Challenge Books

All books added
Murray Out of Water by Taylor Tracy

Murray Out of Water

Taylor Tracy

5 hours, 49 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions) user-added

fiction lgbtqia+ middle grade emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Redwood and Ponytail by K.A. Holt

Redwood and Ponytail

K.A. Holt

424 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ middle grade poetry emotional slow-paced
Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga

Other Words for Home

Jasmine Warga

342 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction contemporary middle grade poetry emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced
Forget Me Not by Ellie Terry

Forget Me Not

Ellie Terry

336 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction middle grade poetry emotional reflective fast-paced
I Am Kavi by Thushanthi Ponweera

I Am Kavi

Thushanthi Ponweera

204 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction historical middle grade poetry challenging emotional reflective fast-paced
Rez Dogs by Joseph Bruchac

Rez Dogs

Joseph Bruchac

192 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction contemporary middle grade poetry emotional reflective medium-paced
Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson

Before the Ever After

Jacqueline Woodson

2 hours, 14 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction health middle grade sports emotional slow-paced
They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid's Poems by David Bowles

They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid's Poems

David Bowles

122 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction middle grade poetry emotional reflective slow-paced
And Then, Boom! by Lisa Fipps

And Then, Boom!

Lisa Fipps

244 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction middle grade poetry emotional hopeful sad fast-paced