Insights: Verse Novels as Transitional and IdentityForming Spaces for Young Adolescents

References

1. Abate M. A. (2018) Verse-atility: The novel in verse and the revival of poetry. The Lion and the Unicom, 42(2), v–viii.
   [Google Scholar]
2. Cadden M. (2011) The verse novel and the question of genre. The ALAN Review, 39(1), 21–27.
   [Google Scholar]
3. Curtis E. N. (2019) “She’s saying the thoughts I didn’t know anyone else had”: YA verse novels and the emergent artistic voice of young women. The ALAN Review, 47(1), 54–63.
   [Google Scholar]
4. DeHart JD. (2020) What the canon means now. NCTEBlog. https://ncte.org/blog/2020/11/canon-means-now/
   [Google Scholar]
5. Gopnik A. (2018, January18What teenagers gain from fine-tuned social radar. Wall Street Journal. https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-teens-galn-from-flne-tunedsoclal-radar-1516295266
   [Google Scholar]
6. Letcher M. (2010) Off the shelves: Poetry and verse novels for young adults. English Journal, 99(3), 87–90.
   [Google Scholar]
7. Penguin Middle School (2014) Jacqueline Woodson Brown Girl Dreaming author video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2YJPGea94E
   [Google Scholar]
8. Ross J. (2019, January14). For a diverse new generation, poetry is a growth industry. Minneapolis Star Tribune. https://www.startribune.com/for-a-diverse-new-generation-poetry-is-a-growth-industry/504180842/
   [Google Scholar]
9. Alexander K. (2014) The crossover.. HMH Books.
   [Google Scholar]
10. Bowles D. (2018) They call me Güero. Cinco Puntos Press.
    [Google Scholar]
11. Dunbar P. L. (1896) The complete poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar. Dodd, Mead, and Company.
    [Google Scholar]
12. Hughes L. (2011) Selected poems of Langston Hughes. Vintage.
    [Google Scholar]
13. Lai T. (2013) Inside out and back again. HarperCollins.
    [Google Scholar]
14. Reynolds J. (2017) Long way down. Simon and Schuster.
    [Google Scholar]
15. Warga J. (2019) Other words for home. HarperCollins.
    [Google Scholar]
16. Woodson J. (2014) Brown girl dreaming. Nancy Paulsen Books.
    [Google Scholar]
17. Woodson J. (2020) Before the ever after. Nancy Paulsen Books.
    [Google Scholar]
18. Zoboi I., Salaam Y. (2020) Punching the air. Balzer + Bray.
    [Google Scholar]