Author
Hope Anita Smith
2 books here
Keeping the Night Watch
Verse novel · ages 8–12 · 620L · 2014
A quiet, heartbreaking verse novel that reaches kids at exactly the moment they can hold adult grief — the narrator's love for his father becomes the real story beneath the war.
The Way a Door Closes
Verse novel · ages 10–14 · 720L · 2003
A quietly devastating verse novel about a 13-year-old boy processing his father's absence—raw, honest, and structured so perfectly in poetry that kids who've lived it will recognize themselves.