Books in verse....no thank you (I know, argue away)

May B by Caroline Starr Rose has an exciting and compelling story line. Set in the time of homesteading on the Kansas prairie, eleven-year-old May has been contracted to help at a neighbor's homestead until Christmas.  Times are tough and her family can use the extra money she will earn.  A sudden, terrible turn of events leaves young May all by herself to survive with winter approaching.  She is miles away from anyone else and it is so easy to get lost in the endless prairie.

The story is told in verse, which I found annoying.  I may be in a minority on this.