Annotation:
"What's lonelier than being on a team where you no longer belong? Even though I was catching passes, I was losing the bigger game... She said, Don't make me your everything. I knew she was right." From the perspective of one of the characters presented, Pete describes about his struggle between sports, friends, identity, and the love and care he has for his girlfriend who is battling with anorexia.
Justification for Nomination:
The Realm of Possibility written by David Levithan is a verse novel that captivates readers by the poetry expressed from twenty students in the same high school. The emotions poured out by each character's voice expresses the daily struggles of a teenager and high school student that creates a dynamic novel that everyone needs to read. Issues about sexuality, relationships, friends, love, social groups, faith, trust, and other topics that come along with high school teenagers are presented in this novel to convey what these young people are going through in today's society. Levithan writes this novel so well in that he is able to use the right amount of vocabulary, tone, figurative language, setting, and themes to match the voice of each high school student; and that brings out the beauty of this novel.
The students are interrelated and interconnected with each other. Each character from the beginning tells his or her story through poetry introducing other characters who later, get their chance to share their point of view. Levithan is brilliant at closing this novel at a full circle giving readers the opportunity to read and paint images about the pain, happiness, struggles and battles that each character is able to describe. This is a novel that every adult and young adult should make an effort to read to further understand about the the differences around us and embrace it. So, take a step into The Realm of Possibility.
Genre: Poetry; Verse Novel
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