The Poet X
Harper Collins Publ. USA
Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award.“A story that will slam the power of poetry and love back into your heart.” —Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak and ChainsThe Poet X is the astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing words and powerful truth.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.But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and 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.With Mami’s determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, Xiomara...
