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2024 Summer Reading K-5 Challenge #18 - Reading is an Adventure - Poetry & Novels in Verse
All In The Neighborhood
Novels in Verse
All In The Neighborhood
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Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
3) Exposed
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High school senior Liz, a gifted photographer, can no longer see things clearly after her best friend accuses Liz's older brother of a terrible crime.
7) Impulse
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Three teens who meet at Reno, Nevada's Aspen Springs mental hospital after each has attempted suicide connect with each other in a way they never have with their parents or anyone else in their lives.
8) Odder
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2024 Summer Reading K-5 Challenge #18 - Reading is an Adventure - Poetry & Novels in Verse
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2024 Summer Reading K-5 Challenge #18 - Reading is an Adventure - Poetry & Novels in Verse
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"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"--
10) Fallout
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Written in free verse, explores how three teenagers try to cope with the consequences of their mother's addiction to crystal meth and its effects on their lives.
11) Glass
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Kristina is determined to defeat her addiction to crack in order to keep her newborn child, but when she is unable to manage her use of the drug and the pull becomes too strong, her greatest fears are quickly realized.
14) May B
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2024 Summer Reading K-5 Challenge #18 - Reading is an Adventure - Poetry & Novels in Verse
Wilderness, Adventure, and Survival
Wilderness, Adventure, and Survival
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May is helping 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.
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2024 Summer Reading K-5 Challenge #18 - Reading is an Adventure - Poetry & Novels in Verse
Novels in Verse
Novels in Verse
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A novel in verse inspired by the author's experience follows Hà and her family, refugees from the Vietnam War, as they move to Texas for a new job, and despite not wanting to start over again, Hà discovers unwanted change can bring a good opportunity.
16) Perfect
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Written in free verse. Everyone has something, someone, somewhere else that they'd rather be. For four high-school seniors, their goals of perfection are just as different as the paths they take to get there. Cara's parents' unrealistic expectations have already sent her twin brother Conner spiraling toward suicide. For her, perfect means rejecting their ideals to take a chance on a new kind of love. Kendra covets the perfect face and body - no matter...