April's Book Selection: The Afterlife by Gary Soto

IF you liked reading "One of Those Hideous Books...", you might enjoy these books about

Losing a parent

• Frannie in Pieces by Delia Ephron
  
• Bounce by Natasha Friend
• Scout by Christine Ford
  
• Walking on Glass by Alma Fullerton
• The Garden of Eve by K.L. Going
• How Ya Like Me Now by Brendan Halpin
• Buried by Robin Merrow McCready
• Freaky Green Eyes by Joyce Carol Oates
  
• The She by Carol Plum-Ucci
• Witch Dreams by Vivian Vande Velde
  
• You Are Not Alone: teens talk about life after the loss of a parent by Lynne Hughes (155.937 Hughes)
  

Authors who write novels-in-verse

• Ellen Hopkins (Crank, Glass, Burned, Impulse, Identical, Tricks)
  
• Lisa Schroeder (I Heart You, You Haunt Me; Far From You; Chasing Brooklyn)
• Virginia Euwer Wolff (Make Lemonade, True Believer, This Full House)
  

Novels-in-verse

• The Death of Jayson Porter by Jaime Adoff
• Jimi & Me by Jaime Adoff
  
• Shark Girl by Kelly Bingham
• All the Broken Pieces by Ann Burg
• Hate That Cat by Sharon Creech
  
• Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
• Scout by Christine Ford
• Walking on Glass by Alma Fullerton
• Loose Threads by Lorie Ann Grover
  
• The Realm of Possibility by David Levithan
  
• Street Love by Walter Dean Myers
• Song of the Sparrow by Lisa Ann Sandell
• The Geography of Girlhood by Kirsten Smith
  
• Hard Hit by Ann Warren Turner
  
• Rubber Houses by Ellen Yeomans
• Reaching For Sun by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer
  

Moving

• Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
  
• Gingerbread by Rachel Cohn
• Not Like You by Deborah Davis
  
• The Garden of Eve by K.L. Going
  
• Takeoffs and Landings by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Drawing the Ocean by Carolyn MacCullough
• Love, Meg by C. Leigh Purtill
• The Indigo Notebook by Laura Resau
  
• Out of the Blue by S.L. Rottman
  
• The Secret Hour (Midnighters #1) by Scott Westerfeld
  

Sonya Sones & "One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies"

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Why does author Sonya Sones write her novels in poetry? Read this: Gaining Power Through Poetry: An Interview with Sonya Sones.

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Other books by Sonya Sones:

• Stop Pretending: what happened when my big sister went crazy
  
• What My Mother Doesn't Know
• What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know