Sones' first three verse novels won numerous awards.

The two books are part of a notable recent cluster of verse novels for children and young adults.

In 2000, the film The Monkey's Mask was made of her verse novel of the same name.

(Ages 15 and up) IN the past decade or so young adult literature has seen the rise of the verse novel.

He has published two collections of poetry and a verse novel:

The verse novel was based on her first year in the United States, as a ten-year-old girl that spoke no English in 1975.

Tricks is a young adult verse novel by Ellen Hopkins, released in August 2009.

Out of the Dust is a verse novel by Karen Hesse, first published in 1997.

The film is based on the verse novel of the same name by Australian poet Dorothy Porter.