Books about dark topics written in verse are page turners even outside the young readers they're aimed at

[...] perhaps the most telling sign of Hopkins' heat is this: "I hear from librarians that my books are the most stolen out of libraries," said the journalist-turned-nonfiction-writer-turned-poet/novelist in a telephone interview from her home near Carson City, Nevada. The format, whi...

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Published inMcClatchy - Tribune News Service
Main Author Kadaba, Lini S
Format Newsletter
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Tribune Content Agency LLC 07.10.2010
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Novels
Poetry
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Summary:[...] perhaps the most telling sign of Hopkins' heat is this: "I hear from librarians that my books are the most stolen out of libraries," said the journalist-turned-nonfiction-writer-turned-poet/novelist in a telephone interview from her home near Carson City, Nevada. The format, which uses plenty of white space and has poems within poems to provide an alternative point of view, makes for a story raw with emotion -- and parallels the way many young people write in journals about their own turmoil.