Cybils 2020 & Poetry Part 2

Due to the pandemic, the Poetry category is on hiatus for the 2020 Cybils. I wanted to highlight the titles that would have been eligible if the category was not on hiatus. These are collections (single author or anthology) and verse novels for children and teens. They were published between October 16, 2019 and October 15, 2020. This second post will list the titles for teens in seventh through twelfth grades.

Collections for Grades 7-9

• Say Her Name by Zetta Elliott

 

Collections for Grades 10-12

• When the Stars Wrote Back by Trista Mateer
• Somebody Give This Heart a Pen by Sophia Thakur

Verse Novels for Young Adults (Grades 7-9)

• Being Toffee by Sarah Crossan
• Three Things I Know Are True by Betty Culley
• With a Star in My Hand by Margarita Engle
• Every Body Looking by Candace Iloh
• Kent State by Deborah Wiles

 

Verse Novels for Young Adults (Grades 10-12)

• Junk Boy by Tony Abbott
• Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
• The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta
• I Am Here Now by Barbara Bottner
• Blood Moon by Lucy Cuthew
• Apple: Skin to Core by Eric Gansworth
• What Goes Up by Christine
• Beauty Mark: A Verse Novel of Marilyn Monroe by Carole Boston Weatherford
• The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep: Voices from the Donner Party by Allan Wolf
• Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam