Best Poetry & Novels in Verse books for young adult readers, including adult-YA crossover books.
YA & Adult-YA Crossovers:
Poetry & Novels in Verse
Total books found: 78
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Evamar
by Margarita Engle
7/28/2026, 272 pages.
From award-winning author Margarita Engle comes an enthralling and heartrending novel in verse about first love, hidden cultures, and ancestral connections that follows a teen's ...
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Bad Queer
by Gayathiri Kamalakanthan
6/2/2026, 432 pages.
A luminous and romantic debut novel in verse about navigating first love as a non–binary teenager.
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An Expanse of Blue
by Kauakanilehua Mahoe Adams
5/19/2026, 464 pages.
Fans of The Poet X will fall for this powerful, romantic debut novel-in-verse about a Native Hawaiian girl's fight to find belonging in a fracturing family, sharing a message of ...
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The Leaving Room
by Amber McBride
10/14/2025, 224 pages.
For fans of You've Reached Sam and If I Stay, a hauntingly beautiful, ultimately hopeful novel-in-verse about a girl in between life and death, by National Book Award Finalist ...
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The Story of My Anger
by Jasminne Mendez
9/16/2025, 336 pages.
The Pura Belpré Honor Award winning author of Aniana del Mar Jumps In makes her YA debut with a powerful novel-in-verse about a Texas teen who is battling racism in her ...
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Island Creatures
by Margarita Engle
7/8/2025, 272 pages.
From award-winning author Margarita Engle comes an inspiring and luminous love story told in verse about childhood friends, once lost and now reconnected, and their fight to ...
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Solo
by Gráinne O'Brien
5/27/2025, 192 pages.
A YA verse novel about first love and friendship, lost and found.
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I Can't Even Think Straight
by Dean Atta
5/6/2025, 304 pages.
In this emotional novel in verse by the Stonewall Award–winning author of The Black Flamingo, a queer biracial teen confronts issues of race, privilege, class, and sexuality ...
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I Am the Swarm
by Hayley Chewins
3/25/2025, 336 pages.
A propulsive YA novel in verse that blends the contemporary magic of Jandy Nelson with the simmering feminist rage of Laurie Halse Anderson's Shout.
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When We Ride
by Rex Ogle
3/25/2025, 336 pages.
Rex Ogle explores bonds of loyalty and friendship and how they're tested by drugs and violence in this propulsive novel-in-verse.
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