by Acevedo, Elizabeth,
[ ] Physical details: 361, 13 pages ; 21 cm Subject(s): Teenage girls --Fiction. | Dominican Americans --Fiction. | High school students --Fiction. | Poets --Fiction. | Poetry slams --Fiction. | Schools --Fiction. | Adolescence --Fiction. | Self-esteem --Fiction. | Interpersonal relations --Fiction. | Harlem (New York, N.Y.) --Fiction. | Novels in verse. | Young adult fiction.No physical items for this record
Includes an excerpt from author's next novel-in-verse Clap when you land (13 pages).
"Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood - but secretly, she pours her dreams and frustrations onto the pages of her notebook like prayers. When she is invited to join her school's slam poetry club, Xiomara doesn't know how she could ever attend without her religious mami finding out. But even so, in the face of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent."--Back cover.
National Book Award Winner for Young People's Literature, 2018
Pura BelpreĢ Author Award, 2019