Beowulf
by Ian Serraillier
Verse novel · ages 9–13 · grades 4–8 · 820L · 48 pages · 1994
Why we'd hand it over
Serraillier's verse retelling strips Beowulf to its narrative spine and restores momentum—kids experience the poem as an adventure, not a scholarly text, and the rhyming couplets stick in memory.