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Poetry is an experiment. It's an experiment of words, of sounds, of images. It captures stories in ways that prose cannot, providing snapshots that when compiled into an album shout about the importance of the events captured within its pages. It has the ability to humor us, move us, surprise us, and even shock us. And many of our young adult authors understand this, capturing the stories they want to share with adolescents in verse so that they may humor, move, surprise, and shock our young readers. So it seems fitting that we begin our exploration of YA literature by exploring these verses. How can we, through these lyrical stories, disrupt our students' thinking about reading, about life?
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