Teen Historical Fiction told in Verse

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The Trial
By Jen Bryant
YA F BRYANT
Living in Flemington, New Jersey in 1935, twelve-year-old Katie Leigh Flynn describes, in a series of poems, the effect on her small town of the ongoing trial of Bruno Hauptmann for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh’s baby son.

Frenchtown Summer
By Robert Cormier
YA F CORMIER
In this series of vignettes in free verse, the writer reminisces about his life as a twelve-year-old boy living in a small town during the hot summer of 1938.

Crossing Stones
By Helen Frost
YA F FROST
In their own voices, four young people, Muriel, Frank, Emma, and Ollie, tell of their experiences during the first World War, as the boys enlist and are sent overseas, Emma finishes school, and Muriel fights for peace and women's suffrage.

By the River
By Steven Herrick
YA F HERRICK
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.

Out of the Dust
By Karen Hesse
YA F HESSE
In a series of poems, fourteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family’s wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.

Witness
By Karen Hesse
YA F HESSE
A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.

Song of the Sparrow
By Lisa Ann Sandell
YA F SANDELL
In fifth-century Britain, Elaine describes her changing perceptions of war and the people around her as she becomes increasingly involved in the bitter struggle against the invading Saxons.