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Who Killed Mr. Chippendale?: A Mystery in Poems

10 best books like Who Killed Mr. Chippendale?: A Mystery in Poems (Mel Glenn): The Weight of the Sky, Ringside, 1925: Views from the Scopes Trial, Seeing Emily, Walking on Glass, Rubber Houses, Sweetgrass Basket, The Braid, Zane's Trace, Almost Forever, Hugging the Rock

The Weight of the Sky
AuthorLisa Ann Sandell
ISBN0670060283
Sarah, like every college-bound junior, deals with constant pressure from teachers, friends, and parents. Besides that, she’s a marching band geek and the only Jew in her class. So when she gets a chance to spend the summer on a kibbutz in Israel, Sarah jumps at the opportunity to escape her world....
Ringside, 1925: Views from the Scopes Trial
AuthorJen Bryant
ISBN0375840478
The year is 1925, and the students of Dayton, Tennessee, are ready for a summer of fishing, swimming, some working, and drinking root beer floats at Robinson’s Drugstore. But when their science teacher, J. T. Scopes, is arrested for having taught Darwin’s theory of evolution in class, it seems...
Seeing Emily
AuthorJoyce Lee Wong
ISBN0810992582
The stunning new talent, Joyce Lee Wong, delivers a poignant, lyrical novel about the experiences of a Chinese American teenage girl by a stunning new talent.

In the successful style of David Levithan's The Realm of Possibility and Sonya Sones' What My Mother Doesn't Know, this free verse...
Walking on Glass
AuthorAlma Fullerton
ISBN0060778512
Your mother's suicide attempt has left her in a coma from which she's never waking up. You know that she wouldn't want to live like this, but could you really help her die? Here you are, making the hardest decision of your life and there's no one to help you: Your father has disappeared into depression. Your...
Rubber Houses
AuthorEllen Yeomans
Typical teenager Kit lives a happy, normal life of friends,boys, and loving family. She and her younger brother, Buddy, are incredibly close despite their eight-year age difference, bonded by a shared love of baseball and math. But when Buddy is taken suddenly by cancer, Kit and herparents struggle...
Sweetgrass Basket
AuthorMarlene Carvell
ISBN0525475478
In prose poetry and alternating voices, Marlene Carvell weaves a heartbreakingly beautiful story based on the real-life experiences of Native American children. Mattie and Sarah are two Mohawk sisters who are sent to an off-reservation school after the death of their mother. Subject to intimidation...
The Braid
AuthorHelen Frost
ISBN0374309620
Two sisters, Jeannie and Sarah, tell their separate yet tightly interwoven stories in alternating narrative poems. Each sister - Jeannie, who leaves Scotland during the Highland Clearances with her father, mother, and the younger children, and Sarah, who hides so she can stay behind with her grandmother...
Zane's Trace
AuthorAllan Wolf
ISBN0763628581
A coming-of-age road story with a supernatural twist — and a compulsively readable poetic novel about identity and belonging.

Zane Guesswind has just killed his grandfather, or so he believes. So he steals the 1969 Plymouth Barracuda his long-gone father left behind and takes off on a manic...
Almost Forever
AuthorMaria Testa
ISBN0763633666
"Rapt readers don’t need to know anything about Vietnam to understand love, loss, fear, and waiting. A tour de force." — KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review)

When the six-year-old narrator of this lyric novel watches her father march off to serve a year in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, a year...
Hugging the Rock
AuthorSusan Taylor Brown
ISBN1582461805
When her mom runs away from home, Rachel is left behind with her emotionally distant father and many questions she cannot answer. Over time, she learns the truth about her mom. But it's only when she learns the truth about her dad, the rock- immoveable and always there for her to lean on-that Rachel can...
By the River
AuthorSteven Herrick
ISBN1932425721
Through rich, vivid poetry, Harry Hodby brings readers into his remote Australian town. He documents the mundane and unique qualities of daily life and the quirkiness of the townspeople, and gives a lively sense of locale. Three-dimensional characters come alive as Harry offers his insightful take...
Partly Cloudy: Poems of Love and Longing
AuthorGary Soto
ISBN0152063013
A poignant, humorous collection by acclaimed poet Gary Soto

The fleeting emotions of teenagers, as changeable as the weather, ring true in these emotionally resonant poems. Told from the point of view of both boys and girls, narrators of various ethnicities fall in love for the first time,...
Shakespeare Makes the Playoffs
AuthorRon Koertge
ISBN0763644358
Fielding his social life is a bigger challenge for Kevin than hitting a fastball in Ron Koertge’s funny, insightful sequel to SHAKESPEARE BATS CLEANUP.

Fourteen-year-old Kevin Boland has a passion for playing baseball, a
knack for writing poetry — and a cute girlfriend named Mira...
Hard Hit
AuthorAnn Turner
ISBN0439296803
As she did in her groundbreaking memoir, Learning to Swim, Turner takes on a tough subject through luminous poetry. The result is a shattering and healing journey through one boy's loss of a parent.

As the pitcher on his HS team, Mark lives and breathes baseball. Sure, there's pressure from...
Frenchtown Summer
AuthorRobert Cormier
ISBN0440228549
Eugene is remembering the summer of 1938 in Frenchtown, a time when he began to wonder “what I was doing here on the planet Earth.” Here in vibrant, exquisite detail are his lovely mother, his aunts and uncles, cousins and friends, and especially his beloved, enigmatic father. Here, too, is the world...
Things Left Unsaid: A Novel in Poems
AuthorStephanie Hemphill
ISBN0786837454
Sarah used to be the good girl. The one who always had her hand raised in class, always obeyed her parents.
Until she met Robin. Once Robin comes into the picture, Sarah's life changes. Her closet begins to fill with black clothes. Good grades become something to be studiously avoided. And maintaining...
Fishtailing
AuthorWendy Phillips
ISBN1550504118
Teen violence, bullying and the burning quest to fit in are presented in the poems of four unforgettable high school students: Natalie, Kyle, Tricia, Miguel. Their stories unfold in this explosive new book told in free verse. A story of teen angst like no other, it is based on fictional characters but...
Ogden Nash's Zoo
AuthorOgden Nash
ISBN0941434958
This is a delightful collection of verses about animals. We enjoyed it (along with the Click, Clack, Moo books) as we read Animal Farm for our Family Book Club.

Favorite verses:
The Cow
The cow is of the bovine ilk;
One end is moo, the other, milk.
The Panther
The panther...
The Last Time as We Are
AuthorTaylor Mali
ISBN0982148879
You don't need a classroom to be a teacher, and you don't need to be a teacher to help someone learn a lesson. Taylor Mali's poetry explores this truth in entertaining and plainspoken ways because "the last thing this world needs is another poem" ("The Call to What We Know"). Whether discussing the language...
Formerly Shark Girl
AuthorKelly Bingham
ISBN0763653624
Jane Arrowood, otherwise known as Shark Girl, has been living with just one arm for over a year. Now she’s searching for a new normal.

It’s been a year since the shark attack that took Jane’s arm, and with it, everything she used to take for granted. Her dream of becoming an artist is on the...
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