The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

4.4 (22)
$15.99

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Web ID: 15843392

Winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpre Award! Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this 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 understands that her thoughts are best kept to herself. So when she is invited to join her school's slam poetry club, she doesn't know how she could ever attend without her mami finding out. But she still can't stop thinking about performing her poems.

  • Product Features

    • Age Range: 13-17 Years
    • Paperback
    • Product dimensions - 5.2" W x 7.9" H x 1.2" D
    • Genre - Fiction
    • Publication Date: 04-07-2020
    • Page Count: 384
    • ISBN - 9780062662811
    • Elizabeth Acevedo (Author)
    • Publisher: HarperCollins
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4.4/5

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4 months ago
from California

School read

Poet X was really good on how it went about personal development and the struggles that the characters went through. Especially how Xio had to deal with harassment and how she dealt with her feelings by writing, even though she didn’t share them. It also helps show how believable the characters are due to them being high schoolers and people actually having too go through situations they had. I would give this book and 8 due to it showing its problems and how they were taken care of clearly and not just thrown together. I really wouldn’t change much except for maybe give a bit more time before Xio and Mami made up. And if it were to have a sequel I would hope it went more in depth into Mami and Xio’s relationship after she burnt her book and sort’ve made up.

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11 months ago
from Philadelphia PA

The story is good, but at some points

At first the story seemed like it would be better, but the author added a lot of unnecessary plot twists, which made me not like the book as much as I could have liked.

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11 months ago
from Guatemala

I love this book

I like this book because it tells you many poems and shows her life with her family when she was little.

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11 months ago

What I really liked

I really liked this book, it was very interesting, it had those moments of intrigue that made me think about what would happen next. It was a very realistic story, some themes that appeared in the story are true, and those small details of what the main character's mother's behavior was like.

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11 months ago
from philadelphia.

The bet book to read

when I start reading this book there were a lot of happiness but after everything changes, there as a lot of fighting between two people.

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11 months ago
from Philadelphia, PA

A nice book for teenagers.

The book tells the progress of a teenager girl and their relationships and changes, very nice! I read this book in my english class with my classmates, and with it, we were able to make multiple activities.

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11 months ago
from PA

The Poet X

I read it at school and it was a really interesting book but not good enough. The main character, her family , her friend and story in the book are really related to what is happening in most of the families in the USA.

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11 months ago
from PA

soso

Sometimes I don't quite understand what this book is about, but I like the author's inner thoughts when writing her stories.

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