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  • Cover for Death in Verse, showing an illustrated girl with rusty red hair and wearing a dress and black sweater standing in a library and holding a book. Her hand touches the pages and ink flows up into the library, where pages swirl around the room. Standing before her is a nonbinary Chinese person in a coat and pants watching her. Beyond the library through the window, rain falls on a forest landscape. The book title and author's name are written in a bold font in all capitalized letters.

    Death in Verse

    A magicless teen infiltrates a retreat at a prestigious school for magical poets in order to find her missing mother—only to discover the school deserted, the guests trapped, and an anonymous host demanding they complete an unfinished poem, or die one by one.

    Attributes Value
    Classification

    Fiction
    Genre

    Fantasy, Historical Fiction, LGBTQ+, Mystery/Crime
    Age

    Young Adult
    Publisher

    Hachette
    Imprint

    Union Square & Co.
    Language(s)

    English
    Format(s)

    Audiobook, eBook, Hardcover, Trade paperback
    Author

    Julie Lew
    Release Date

    22 September 2026
    Release Month

    September Releases
    Author Identity

    BIPOC, LGBTQIA+
    Content Rep

    BIPOC, LGBTQIA+

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