Cover image for The poet X / a novel by Elizabeth Acevedo.
Title:
The poet X / a novel by Elizabeth Acevedo.
ISBN:
9780062662804
Personal Author:
Acevedo, Elizabeth
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018.
Physical Description:
361 pages ; 22 cm
Awards Note:
Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award (2019)

Winner of the Pura Belpré Award, author (2019)
Summary:
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.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader UG 5.2 5 195165
Geographic Term:
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
Subject Term:
Poets -- Fiction

Teenage girls -- Fiction

Dominican Americans -- Fiction.

High school students -- Fiction

Poetry slams -- Fiction.

Schools -- Fiction

Adolescence -- Fiction

Self-esteem -- Fiction

Interpersonal relations -- Fiction

Catholics -- Fiction
Genre:
Novels in verse

Religious fiction

Michael L. Printz Award

Walter Dean Myers Award

National Book Awards
Audience:
HL800L Lexile
OCLC Number:
ocn989963667
Availability:
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