Text Messages Episode 25
Celebrating Poetry for Teens
Tune in to hear podcast host Jennifer Buehler talk about these great books for teens and
preteens on iTunes or at http://www.readwritethink.org/textmessages
I Feel a Little Jumpy Around
You: A Book of Her Poems
and His Poems Collected in
Pairs edited by Naomi
Shihab Nye and Paul
Janeczko
(Simon & Schuster, 1996)
What Have You Lost? Poems
selected by Naomi Shihab Nye
(Greenwillow Books, 1999)
Time You Let Me In: 25
Poets Under 25
(Greenwillow, 2010)
You Hear Me? Poems and
Writing by Teenage Boys
edited by Betsy Franco
(Candlewick, 2000)
Things I Have to Tell You: Poems
and Writing by Teenage Girls
edited by Betsy Franco
(Candlewick, 2001)
Tell the World: Teen Poems
from WritersCorps
(HarperTeen, 2008)
The Firefly Letters: A
Suffragette’s Journey to Cuba by
Margarita Engle
(Henry Holt, 2010)
Borrowed Names: Poems
about Laura Ingalls Wilder,
Madam C.J. Walker, Marie
Curie, and Their Daughters
by Jeannine Atkins
(Henry Holt, 2010)
Shakespeare Makes the
Playoffs by Ron Koertge
(Candlewick, 2010)
Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual
Poems on Being Young and
Latino in the United States
edited by Lori Carlson
(Henry Holt, 2005)
Sold by Patricia McCormick
(Hyperion, 2006)
You Don’t Even Know Me:
Stories and Poems about
Boys by Sharon G. Flake
(Jump at the Sun, 2010)
Cover art used with permission from the publishers listed. All rights reserved.
Text Messages Episode 25
Celebrating Poetry for Teens
More Verse Novels for Teens
Jump Ball: A Basketball
Season in Poems by Mel
Glenn
(Dutton, 1997)
Make Lemonade by Virginia
Euwer Wolff
(Henry Holt, 1993)
True Believer by Virginia
Euwer Wolff
(Atheneum, 2001)
This Full House by Virginia
Euwer Wolff
(HarperTeen, 2009)
Stop Pretending: What
Happened When My Big
Sister Went Crazy by Sonya
Sones
(HarperTeen, 2001)
You Remind Me of You: A
Poetry Memoir by Eireann
Corrigan
(Push, 2002)
What My Mother Doesn’t
Know by Sonya Sones
(Simon & Schuster, 2001)
What My Girlfriend Doesn’t
Know by Sonya Sones
(Simon & Schuster, 2007)
The Brimstone Journals by
Ron Koertge
(Candlewick, 2001)
Keesha’s House by Helen
Frost
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2003)
The Realm of Possibility by
David Levithan
(Alfred A. Knopf, 2005)
Crank by Ellen Hopkins
(Margaret K. McElderry,
2004)
Glass by Ellen Hopkins
(Margaret K. McElderry,
2007)
Fallout by Ellen Hopkins
(Margaret K. McElderry,
September 2010)
A Bad Boy Can Be Good for
a Girl by Tanya Lee Stone
(Wendy Lamb Books, 2006)
Because I Am Furniture by
Thalia Chaltas
(Viking, 2009)
Cover art used with permission from the publishers listed. All rights reserved.