4.3
Young adult
Don't miss this acclaimed audiobook, read by the author—winner of an Odyssey Honor and an AudioFile Earphones Award winner!
The Poet X is also the winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré 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. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.
But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and 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.
With Mami’s determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, Xiomara understands that her thoughts are best kept to herself. So when she is invited to join her school’s slam poetry club, she doesn’t know how she could ever attend without her mami finding out. But she still can’t stop thinking about performing her poems.
Because in the face of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent.
“Crackles with energy and snaps with authenticity and voice.” —Justina Ireland, author of Dread Nation
“An incredibly potent debut.” —Jason Reynolds, author of the National Book Award Finalist Ghost
“Acevedo has amplified the voices of girls en el barrio who are equal parts goddess, saint, warrior, and hero.” —Ibi Zoboi, author of American Street
This young adult novel, a selection of the Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List, is an excellent choice for accelerated tween readers in grades 6 to 8, in the classroom or for homeschooling.
Plus don't miss Elizabeth Acevedo's With the Fire on High and Clap When You Land!
© 2018 Quill Tree Books (Luisterboek): 9780062822482
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 6 maart 2018
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4.3
Young adult
Don't miss this acclaimed audiobook, read by the author—winner of an Odyssey Honor and an AudioFile Earphones Award winner!
The Poet X is also the winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré 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. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.
But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and 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.
With Mami’s determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, Xiomara understands that her thoughts are best kept to herself. So when she is invited to join her school’s slam poetry club, she doesn’t know how she could ever attend without her mami finding out. But she still can’t stop thinking about performing her poems.
Because in the face of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent.
“Crackles with energy and snaps with authenticity and voice.” —Justina Ireland, author of Dread Nation
“An incredibly potent debut.” —Jason Reynolds, author of the National Book Award Finalist Ghost
“Acevedo has amplified the voices of girls en el barrio who are equal parts goddess, saint, warrior, and hero.” —Ibi Zoboi, author of American Street
This young adult novel, a selection of the Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List, is an excellent choice for accelerated tween readers in grades 6 to 8, in the classroom or for homeschooling.
Plus don't miss Elizabeth Acevedo's With the Fire on High and Clap When You Land!
© 2018 Quill Tree Books (Luisterboek): 9780062822482
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 6 maart 2018
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Simone
13 mrt 2018
Gorgeous. Written in beautiful, powerful verse and read perfectly by the author. Highly recommend this one to everyone!
Hanna
22 dec 2022
This was incredible. Mesmerizing prose interspersed with powerful poetry. A book on being brown, on being a woman, on being raised under a religion that seems suffocating rather than liberating - a must read if you too relate to any or all of those experiences.
Liv
28 jan 2022
Heel mooi geschreven.
Lausy
29 sep 2021
I love it so so so much. Very relatable as well
do
2 mei 2023
Love it
Esther
7 mrt 2021
Wat is dit boek fantastisch geschreven! Ik vind het prachtig om te zien hoe in haar gedichten, ze kan laten zien hoe belangrijk de invloed van haar docent is geweest om alsnog te doen waarvan ze houdt, ook al voelt ze zich niet gesteund door haar ouders. Ontzettend krachtig!
Marlijn
2 jun 2020
I cried... If an audiobook makes you cry, then it must be powerful stuff. And it is.
sterre <3
8 jan 2024
omg this was amazing!!! the author narrates the book and that's beautiful to listen to cus one the book is in verse and two you hear it exactly how the author intended
Mirte
2 jul 2021
Geweldig audioboek!
Lourens
21 feb 2021
If all else, this is love to me!
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