Overview
Winner of the National Book Award for Young Peopleās Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, andĀ the Pura BelprĆ© Award!
Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishingĀ New York Times-bestsellingĀ 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 prayersāespecially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about.
With Mamiās 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 schoolās slam poetry club, she doesnāt know how she could ever attend without her mami finding out. But she still canāt 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.
āCrackles with energy and snaps with authenticity and voice.ā āJustina Ireland, author of Dread Nation
āAn incredibly potent debut.ā āJason Reynolds, author of the National Book Award Finalist Ghost
āAcevedo has amplified the voices of girls en el barrio who are equal parts goddess, saint, warrior, and hero.ā āIbi Zoboi, author of American Street
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