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No cover — Elizabeth Acevedo: The Poet X (2018, HarperCollins Publishers)

361 pages

English language

Published Nov. 7, 2018 by HarperCollins Publishers.

ISBN:: 978-0-06-266280-4

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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.

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Catship reviewed The poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

I like this one

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It's a story about poetry and family and friends and love and a lot of hard stuff happens and there's oppression and harassment and abuse, but it's a super beautiful story imo.

Subjects

Poets
Schools
Self-esteem
Adolescence
Interpersonal relations
Fiction