Notable Poetry and Verse Novels, 2011-2024
Resources for a selection of the titles recognized by this award since its inception in 2011 -- recognizing notable forms of poetry, including individual poetry, anthologies, narratives, biographical poems, and verse novels
Sponsored by National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
![Notable Poetry and Verse Novels, 2011-2024](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/images/awards/130.jpg)
- 5,152 Resources including
- 630 Videos
- 282 Book Readings
- 359 Lesson Plans
- List Analysis Report
Showing 1-48 of 314 book results
![Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1626727465.jpg)
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
by Kevin Noble Maillard and Juana Martinez-Neal
(Selection, 2020)
57 Resources18 Awards
![Booked](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0544570987.jpg)
![Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/151240442X.jpg)
Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship
by Irene Latham, Charles Waters, Selina Alko, and Sean Qualls
(Selection, 2019)
53 Resources3 Awards
![Undefeated, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/62315_hi.jpg)
![Dictionary for a Better World: Poems, Quotes, and Anecdotes from A to Z](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/1541557751.jpg)
Dictionary for a Better World: Poems, Quotes, and Anecdotes from A to Z
by Irene Latham, Charles Waters, and Mehrdokht Amini
(Selection, 2021)
52 Resources1 Awards
![Becoming Muhammad Ali](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/0316498165.jpg)
Becoming Muhammad Ali
by James Patterson, Kwame Alexander, and Dawud Anyabwile
(Selection, 2021)
48 Resources5 Awards
![Rebound](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0544868137.jpg)
![Other Words for Home](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0062747800.jpg)
![Poem for Peter, A: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of the Snowy Day](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/0425287688.jpg)
A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of the Snowy Day
by Andrea Davis Pinkney, Steve Johnson, and Lou Fancher
(Selection, 2017)
43 Resources8 Awards
![Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/1481435221.jpg)
![Red, White, and Whole](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/74570_hi.jpg)
![Remember](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/0593484835.jpg)
![Before She Was Harriet](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0823420477.jpg)
Before She Was Harriet
by Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome
(Selection, 2018)
40 Resources13 Awards
![Land of the Cranes](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/1338343807.jpg)
![Freedom in Congo Square](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/1499801033.jpg)
Freedom in Congo Square
by Carole Boston Weatherford and R. Gregory Christie
(Selection, 2017)
38 Resources13 Awards
![Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0763669547.jpg)
Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph
by Roxane Orgill and Francis Vallejo
(Selection, 2017)
38 Resources14 Awards
![Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/73887_hi.jpg)
Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
by Nikki Grimes
(Selection, 2022)
38 Resources10 Awards
![Martin Rising: Requiem for a King](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/0545702534.jpg)
Martin Rising: Requiem for a King
by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney
(Selection, 2019)
37 Resources7 Awards
![Before the Ever After](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/0399545433.jpg)
![1619 Project, The: Born on the Water](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/0593307356.jpg)
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Renée Watson, and Nikkolas Smith
(Selection, 2022)
37 Resources12 Awards
![Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/076368094X.jpg)
Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets
by Kwame Alexander, Chris Colderley, Marjory Wentworth, and Ekua Holmes
(Selection, 2018)
36 Resources10 Awards
![Black Is a Rainbow Color](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/67664_hi.jpg)
![No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/162354131X.jpg)
No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History
by Lindsay H. Metcalf, Keila V. Dawson, and Jeanette Bradley
(Selection, 2021)
36 Resources2 Awards
![Door of No Return, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/0316441961.jpg)
![Garvey's Choice](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1629797405.jpg)
![Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/3/1481456903.jpg)
Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan
by Ashley Bryan
(Selection, 2017)
35 Resources15 Awards
![They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid's Poems](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1947627066.jpg)
![Poems in the Attic](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/1620140276.jpg)
![Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/67460_hi.jpg)
Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom
by Carole Boston Weatherford and Michele Wood
(Selection, 2021)
34 Resources7 Awards
![Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/1250311209.jpg)
Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice
by Mahogany L. Browne, Elizabeth Acevedo, Olivia Gatwood, and Theodore Taylor, III
(Selection, 2021)
34 Resources6 Awards
![On the Horizon](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0358129400.jpg)
![Words with Wings](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/1590789857.jpg)
![Alone](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/1534467564.jpg)
![Your Mama](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1328631885.jpg)
![American Story, An](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/media/bookimages/covers/85584_hi.jpg)
![One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/1619635542.jpg)
One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
by Nikki Grimes
(Selection, 2018)
29 Resources11 Awards
![Maya's Song](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/7/0062871587.jpg)
![Jazz Owls: A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/2/1534409432.jpg)
Jazz Owls: A Novel of the Zoot Suit Riots
by Margarita Engle and Rudy Gutierrez
(Selection, 2019)
28 Resources6 Awards
![How to Read a Book](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/9/0062307819.jpg)
![Full Moon Is Rising, A](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1600603645.jpg)
![For Every One](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/1481486241.jpg)
![By and By: Charles Albert Tindley, the Father of Gospel Music](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/1/1534426361.jpg)
By and By: Charles Albert Tindley, the Father of Gospel Music
by Carole Boston Weatherford and Bryan Collier
(Selection, 2021)
27 Resources2 Awards
![Won Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/0805089950.jpg)
Won Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku
by Lee Wardlaw and Eugene Yelchin
(Selection, 2011)
26 Resources8 Awards
![Last Laughs: Animal Epitaphs](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/4/1580892604.jpg)
Last Laughs: Animal Epitaphs
by J. Patrick Lewis, Jane Yolen, and Jeffrey Stewart Timmins
(Selection, 2012)
26 Resources1 Awards
![Moon Within, The](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/5/1338283375.jpg)
![Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/0/1328987590.jpg)
![How to Write a Poem](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/6/0063060906.jpg)
How to Write a Poem
by Kwame Alexander, Melissa Sweet, and Deanna Nikaido
(Selection, 2024)
26 Resources6 Awards
![Voices from the March on Washington](https://cdn.teachingbooks.net/content/ingram_images_hi/8/1620917858.jpg)
Voices from the March on Washington
by J. Patrick Lewis and George Ella Lyon
(Selection, 2015)
25 Resources3 Awards