Poet X - SFBA Book Club

No cover — Elizabeth Acevedo: Poet X (2020, HarperCollins Publishers)

English language

Published Nov. 7, 2020 by HarperCollins Publishers.

ISBN:: 978-1-5364-5386-7

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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

Adolescence, fiction
Girls, fiction
Harlem (new york, n.y.), fiction
Interpersonal relations, fiction
Poets, fiction
Schools, fiction
Children's fiction
Hispanic americans, fiction
Self-esteem, fiction