Novels in Verse for Teens - April 2026
Novels in verse offer the best of both worlds: a solid plot with characters that pull you in, and a lot of white space on the page, so the story is all meat and no filler. Here are some great new titles from the last year or so. MS = middle school (Created March 2026)
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Hekate
Young Hekate finds herself an orphan, unwanted by the Titans or the victors of the divine war, the Olympians. Raised in the underworld by Styx and Hades, she becomes the solution to ending the war of the immortals once she finds the source of her powers.
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Availability: All copies in use
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The House No One Sees
Penny is pulled into the past when, on her sixteenth birthday, she receives a desperate text from her estranged mother. Entering her childhood home distorts reality and surfaces painful memories for her, forcing her to confront her mother’s addictions if she is to be free.
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I Am the Swarm
Nell gains her family’s magical powers right after her fifteenth birthday, as a swarm of yellow ladybugs alights on her piano keys when she searches for the right melody. Her mother and sister’s magic betrayed them in key ways, and now she sees it will do the same to her.
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I Can't Even Think Straight
Kai struggles when his closeted best friend forces Kai out of the closet to protect himself.
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Island Creatures
Cuban childhood friends Vida and Adán reencounter each other in a Florida wildlife refuge, she now a talented photographer and he a baseball star. MS
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King of the Neuro Verse
Pernell struggles with another summer of school, a bullying teacher, and his ADHD, but when his friend and crush gives him a digital recorder, he finds his voice in lunchroom rap circles.
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The Leaving Room
Two Keepers, who help children move to the afterlife, fall in love when they become entangled in the space between life and death. MS
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One Step Forward
Matilda, the youngest in her family, must decide whether to risk her family’s stability and her own safety in the fight for women’s suffrage.
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The Siren and the Star
Lula wins a chance to sing and study in Venice, but after she is attacked, she is unable to sing until she learns about a famous woman composer from the 18th Century.
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Solo
Passionate classical musician Daisy has her life turned upside down when her boyfriend suddenly drops her and a mysterious new girl befriends her. Can she find her way back to her old self, or will she have to grow into a new way of being?
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