Books in Verse The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi Every Body Looking by Candace Iloh The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds Apple: Skin to the Core by Eric Gansworth Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough Me (Moth) by Amber McBride Muted by Tami Charles The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep by Allan Wolf Kent State by Deborah Wiles Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson Ordinary Hazards by Nikki Grimes Thirty Talks Weird Love by Alessandra Narvaez-Varela