# Verse Novel books about resilience

**3** verse novel books that explore resilience, drawn from the US-school assigned-reading canon. Sourced from Common Core exemplars, AP, IB, Cambridge, and 50 state ELA curricula.

**Genre:** Verse Novel  ·  **Theme:** resilience
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**Primary source — Common Core ELA exemplars:** https://achievethecore.org/page/2699

## Verse Novel resilience reading list

- [A Work in Progress](https://readinglist.school/book/a-work-in-progress) by Jarrett Lerner _(Grades 4–8 · pub 2024)_
- [In the Beautiful Country](https://readinglist.school/book/in-the-beautiful-country) by Jane Kuo _(Grades 3–6 · pub 2022)_
- [Louder Than Hunger](https://readinglist.school/book/louder-than-hunger) by John Schu _(Grades 7–12 · pub 2024)_

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