YA Poetry Month 2007 - Poetry Novels

	Learn more about YA Poetry Month with titles selected for YA guys and gals. All of these library materials are owned by the Metropolitan Library System. Log on to CyberMars with your library card to reserve any titles that interest you, or ask a librarian for assistance.
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	The Braid Helen Frost (Farrar, c2006) Shelf Number: FICTION/FRO YOUNG ADULT In this unforgettable novel, award-winning poet Helen Frost eloquently twists strand over strand of language, braiding the words at the edges of the poems to bring new poetic forms to life while intertwining the destinies of two young girls and the people who cross their paths.
	By the River Steven Herrick (Front Street, c2006) Shelf Number: FICTION/HER YOUNG ADULT A fourteen-year-old describes, through prose poems, his life in a small Australian town in 1962, where, since their mother's death, he and his brother have been mainly on their own to learn about life, death, and love.
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	Cinnamon Girl: Letters Found Inside a Cereal Box Juan Felipe Herrera (HarperCollins, c2005) Shelf Number: FICTION/HER YOUNG ADULT When the towers fall, New York City is blanketed by dust. On the Lower East Side, Yolanda, the Cinnamon Girl, makes her manda, her promise, to gather as much of it as she can. Maybe returning the dust to Ground Zero can comfort all the voices. Maybe it can help Uncle DJ open his eyes again.
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	Dark Sons Nikki Grimes (Hyperion Books for Children, c2005) Shelf Number: FICTION/GRI YOUNG ADULT Alternating between biblical times and contemporary Brooklyn, Grimes masterfully tells the stories of two boys separated by time, geography, and culture in this novel about love and forgiveness, and the comfort brought by faith during difficult times.
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	Hard Hit Ann Warren Turner (Scholastic, c2006) Shelf Number: FICTION/TUR YOUNG ADULT Sixteen-year-old high school baseball star Mark has an enviable life. However, when his father is diagnosed with cancer, everything Mark ever believed in is called into question.
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	Impulse Ellen Hopkins (McElderry, c2007) Shelf Number: FICTION/HOP YOUNG ADULT Three lives, three different paths to the same destination: Aspen Springs, a psychiatric hospital for those who have attempted the ultimate act of desperation--suicide.
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	Jimi & Me Jaime Adoff (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion, c2005) Shelf Number: FICTION/ADO YOUNG ADULT After the murder of his father, Keith and his mother are forced to leave Brooklyn and move in with his aunt. Keith urgently clings to every last reminder of his dad, discovering comfort in his own music and that of the late legend--and his father's idol--Jimi Hendrix.
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