The poet X
Titre
:
The poet X
Elizabeth, Acevedo
Sommaire
:
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.
Date de publication comme intervalle
:
2020,
2018
Description matérielle
:
361 pages ; 22 cm
2018 Boston Globe Horn Book Fiction and Poetry Award winner
Terme de vedette-matière
:
Teenage girls -- Fiction.
Self-realization -- Fiction.
Dominican Americans -- Fiction.
Poets -- Fiction.
Schools -- Fiction.
Poetry slams -- Fiction.
Parent and child -- Fiction.
Secrecy -- Fiction.
Terme géographique
:
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Genre
:
Bildungsromans.
Novels in verse.
Résumé
:
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.
Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN)
:
9780062662804
9781405291460
9780062662811
Informations de publication
:
New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018.
New York, NY : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020.
©2018
| Bibliothèque | Numéro de rayon | Type de document | Code à barres du document | Statut |
|---|
| Edmonton Christian High | FIC ACE | Book | 30905000122782 | Fiction |