Sentences with phrase «historical verse novels»

I write middle grade historical verse novels, books will little flash or broad commercial appeal.

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Her new historical novel in verse, Stone Mirrors, tells the tale of Edmonia Lewis, a girl with an Ojibwe mother and a father from Haiti, who overcomes abuse and prejudice to become a world - class sculptor in the years following the Civil War.

Here we highlight 10 titles that show the amazing variety that poets create for us, a diverse rainbow of writers and forms, from picture - book biographies to edgy anthologies to fact - based verse novels to historical homages to celebrations of culture — all poetry!

Hemphill follows her Printz Honor Book Your Own, Sylvia (2007) with another bold verse novel based on historical figures.

Set against the backdrop of the War of 1812, this historical novel in verse tells the story of two boys who become friends despite their very different backgrounds (the Miami tribe and a frontier family).