Linda Oatman High

Theme: Hi-lo, Young Adult, teen, realistic fiction, poetry, verse, texting and driving, death, heaven. Macy is dead. Selfies while driving never end well. She knows it now #suckstobeme. And she has unfinished business. Her friend Ryan is planning to shoot up the school. But the afterlife is so ... unexpected. She gets distracted. Who knew she would find love? Just like prose, a novel in verse tells a story. But verse is unique because readers access...

First, there was Bird. Then there was Bird-Bird. And now, Third Bird. Magnolia's daddy won the beloved cockatiel Third Bird at a carnival, just before he, died in a car accident. Magnolia promised to always take good care of Third Bird... but then she loses him, when she accidentally, allows the bird to fly from his cage at her mama's beauty salon. Magnolia's grief, for her father and for her lost bird, opens up a whole, new world of friends as they...

A young boy helps his father recycle a 19th-century barn.

A fictionalized account, told in free-verse poems, of a young girl's experience living through the 1888 "Great Blizzard" in New York City.

After Nicholas, a chimney sweep, receives a furry red coat, he returns to the rooftops to pass on the kindness he was given.

In this novel told in slam verse, best friends and aspiring poets Laura and Twig embark on a road trip after graduating from high school, from Pennsylvania to New York City, to compete at slam poetry events.