In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.

A novel in verse about Kevin's journey from bully to being bullied, as he learns about friendship, family, and his talent for poetry.

Untalented at riding, roping, and cracking a whip, Slim the cowboy calms a stampeding herd of cattle with his poetry.

Fifteen-year-old Rachel uses poetry and her Mormon faith to cope with grief over the loss of her father, the horrors of her brother's alcoholism, resentment of her new stepfather, and the awkwardness of having an attractive schoolmate as her stepbrother.

Troy enlists Gabriella to help teach Chad and the other guys on the basketball team how to write poetry for an important class assignment, but the task goes sour for Gabriella when she accidently sees a poem Troy has obviously written about another girl.

Stella Endicott is thrilled when her class is assigned to write a poem. Stella crafts a poem about Mercy Watson, the pig who lives next door -- a poem complete with a metaphor and full of curiosity and courage. But Horace Broom, Stella's irritating classmate, insists that Stella's poem is full of lies and that pigs do not live in houses, Can anyting turn this opposite-of-a-poem day around?

At Mount Olympus Academy, twelve-year-old Calliope, the muse of epic poetry, is having trouble finding her own inspiration to complete a school project and find a roommate.

Tugg, a gorilla, helps his best friend Teeny, a monkey, in her attempts to become a musician, an artist, and a poet.