The Poet X
About this book
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.
Subjects
- adolescence
- adolescence, fiction
- age:max:17
- age:min:13
- authorship
- award:pura_belpre_award
- children's fiction
- collectionid:eaneschallenge
- coming of age
- dominican americans
- dominican american women
- dominican women poets
- fiction
- girls, fiction
- grade:max:9
- grade:min:8
- harlem (new york, n.y.), fiction
- high school students
- hispanic americans, fiction
- hispanic & latino
- interpersonal relations
- interpersonal relations, fiction
- juvenile fiction
- lexile:800
- lexile_code:hl
- lexile_range:801-900
- new york times bestseller
- novels in verse
- nyt:young-adult-hardcover=2018-04-01
- nyt:young-adult-paperback-monthly=2020-07-12
- people & places
- poetry slams
- poets
- poets, fiction
- schools
- schools, fiction
- self-esteem
- self-esteem, fiction
- teenage girls
- women poets
- young adult fiction