Poet X - SFBA Book Club

No cover — Elizabeth Acevedo: Poet X (2019, Thorndike Press)

English language

Published Nov. 7, 2019 by Thorndike Press.

ISBN:: 978-1-4328-6458-3

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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

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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

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