The poet X
Title
:
The poet X
Personal Author EPSB
:
Elizabeth, Acevedo
Summary
:
Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. She pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers-- especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about. When she is invited to join her school's slam poetry club, she can't stop thinking about performing her poems.
Year Published
:
2020,
2018
Physical Description
:
361 pages ; 22 cm
Awards
:
2018 Boston Globe Horn Book Fiction and Poetry Award winner
Subject
:
Teenage girls -- Fiction.
Self-realization -- Fiction.
Dominican Americans -- Fiction.
Poets -- Fiction.
Schools -- Fiction.
Poetry slams -- Fiction.
Parent and child -- Fiction.
Secrecy -- Fiction.
Geographic Term
:
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Genre
:
Bildungsromans.
Novels in verse.
Summary
:
Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. She pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers-- especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about. When she is invited to join her school's slam poetry club, she can't stop thinking about performing her poems.
ISBN
:
9780062662804
9781405291460
9780062662811
Publisher
:
New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018.
New York, NY : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020.
©2018
| Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
|---|
| Edmonton Christian High | FIC ACE | Book | 30905000122782 | Fiction |