Congratulations to Elizabeth Acevedo and The Poet X, Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature
“Thank you so much to the readers who time and again remind me why I took this leap, why it matters, and why books matter.”
The Poet X
Hardcover
$16.99
$19.99
The Poet X
In Stock Online
Hardcover
$16.99
$19.99
Here at the B&N Teen Blog, we’re very big fans of Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X, this year’s winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s literature. Huge. Acevedo’s bestselling debut centers on a Harlem teen who wants to be both heard and unnoticed: nobody listens to what Xiomora has to say, but her changing body is drawing the kind of attention she wishes she could hide from. Her notebook is her confidante, and she fills it with all the words she can’t speak aloud. But a crush her family would never approve of and an invite to join her school’s slam poetry club brings her to a crossroads: to continue being silent, or to defy her devout mother and find her voice.
Read this wonderful book if you haven’t yet. But first, don’t miss Acevedo’s moving acceptance speech.
The Poet X is on sale now.
Here at the B&N Teen Blog, we’re very big fans of Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X, this year’s winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s literature. Huge. Acevedo’s bestselling debut centers on a Harlem teen who wants to be both heard and unnoticed: nobody listens to what Xiomora has to say, but her changing body is drawing the kind of attention she wishes she could hide from. Her notebook is her confidante, and she fills it with all the words she can’t speak aloud. But a crush her family would never approve of and an invite to join her school’s slam poetry club brings her to a crossroads: to continue being silent, or to defy her devout mother and find her voice.
Read this wonderful book if you haven’t yet. But first, don’t miss Acevedo’s moving acceptance speech.
The Poet X is on sale now.