The poet X
Título
:
The poet X
Elizabeth, Acevedo
Resumen
:
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.
Fecha de publicación como intervalo
:
2020,
2018
Descripción física
:
361 pages ; 22 cm
2018 Boston Globe Horn Book Fiction and Poetry Award winner
Término de la materia
:
Teenage girls -- Fiction.
Self-realization -- Fiction.
Dominican Americans -- Fiction.
Poets -- Fiction.
Schools -- Fiction.
Poetry slams -- Fiction.
Parent and child -- Fiction.
Secrecy -- Fiction.
Término geográfico
:
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Género
:
Bildungsromans.
Novels in verse.
Síntesis
:
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
Información de publicación
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New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018.
New York, NY : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020.
©2018
| Biblioteca | Signatura topográfica | Tipo de material | Código de barras del documento | Estado |
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| Edmonton Christian High | FIC ACE | Book | 30905000122782 | Fiction |