The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo Sue Rose been honed and nurtured over

been honed and nurtured over many years

and only half mollified by the thought that someone else is reading it now

replacing the novel’s core with ghost poems

By turns playful

the first book

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo Sue Rose been honed and nurtured overWinner of the National Book Award for Young Peoples Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpr 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.