The Poet X
by Elizabeth Acevedo · 2018
Literary Fiction · ranked #238 in category
Winner · The Carnegie Medal for Writing, 2019
Xiomara Batista, a Dominican-American teenager in Harlem, channels her anger, faith and desire into a notebook of poems she's afraid to share — until a school slam poetry club gives her a place to perform. Acevedo's novel-in-verse won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, the Carnegie Medal and the Printz Award — a rare triple.
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- Essential Read
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