Teen Novels in Verse about Dating and Relationships

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What My Mother Doesn’t Know
By Sonya Sones
YA F SONES
A series of poems reflect the thoughts and feelings of Sophie, a fifteen-year-old-girl, as she describes her relationships with a series of boys and as she searches for Mr. Right.

What My Girlfriend Doesn’t Know
By Sonya Sones
YA F SONES
Fourteen-year-old Robin Murphy is so unpopular at high school that his name is slang for “loser,” and so when he begins dating the beautiful and popular Sophie her reputation plummets, but he finds acceptance as a student in a drawing class at Harvard.

Street Love
By Walter Dean Myers
YA F MYERS
This story told in free verse is set against a background of street gangs and poverty in Harlem in which seventeen-year-old African American Damien takes a bold step to ensure that he and his new love will not be separated.

I Heart You, You Haunt Me
By Lisa Schroeder
YA F SCHROEDER
When her recently deceased boyfriend, Jackson, reappears as a ghost, Ava is thrilled to have him in her life in any way she can, but when she finally begins to move on with her life, Jackson must find a way to let her go.