01896cam a2200397 i 4500 1467457197 TxAuBib 20240726120000.0 170610s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780062662804 hardcover 0062662805 hardcover TxAuBib rda Acevedo, Elizabeth, author. The poet X / a novel by Elizabeth Acevedo. First edition. New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] ©2018. 361 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Harlem. Ever since her body grew into curves, Xiomara Batista has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. 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. Mami is determined to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, and Xiomara understands that her thoughts are best kept to herself. When she is invited to join her school's slam poetry club, she can't stop thinking about performing her poems. 20240726. Teenage girls fast Fiction. Dominican Americans Fiction. High school students Fiction. Poets Fiction. Poetry slams Fiction. Schools fast Fiction. Adolescence Fiction. Self-esteem Fiction. Interpersonal relations Fiction. Young adult fiction. fast Harlem (New York, N.Y) Fiction. Novels in verse. fast