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Elizabeth Acevedo
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…
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From the National Book Award-winning poet and YA author of The Poet X comes a huge-hearted family saga spanning three generations of women
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A big-hearted, compassionate novel about three generations of women preparing for a living wake - from award-winning poet and author Elizabeth Acevedo
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"Three days prior to [a living] wake, [this novel] traces the lives of each of the Marte women, weaving together past and present, the Dominican Republic and New York City…
The stunning new novel in verse from the 2019 Carnegie Medal winning author of THE POET X.
From the New York Times -bestselling author of the National Book Award winner The Poet X comes a dazzling novel in prose about a girl with talent, pride, and a…
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A huge-hearted novel about three generations of women preparing for a living wake - the debut adult novel from the National Book Award-winning poet and YA author of The Poet…
A 2018 National Book Award Finalist! A young girl in Harlem discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her mother's religion and her own relationship to the world in…
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A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: Today.com * Time * Electric Literature * Seattle Times * Telemundo * Washington Post * HipLatina * Harper's Bazaar
From bestselling, National Book…
Thorndike Press Large Print The Literacy Bridge.
From 2019 Carnegie Medal winner Elizabeth Acevedo comes a dazzling novel in prose about a girl with talent, pride, and a drive to feed the soul that keeps her fire…
A young girl in Harlem discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her mother’s religion and her own relationship to the world in this debut novel by renowned slam…
A 2018 National Book Award Finalist! A young girl in Harlem discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her mother’s religion and her own relationship to the world in…
The second poignant, powerful and passionate novel in verse from the 2019 Carnegie Medal winning author of The Poet X.
They tell me to fix my hair.
And by fix, they mean straighten, they mean whiten;
but how do you fix this shipwrecked
history of hair?
In her most famous…
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…
Julia Alvarez
It’s a long way from Santo Domingo to the Bronx, but if anyone can go the distance, it’s the Garcia girls. Four lively Latinas plunge from a pampered life of…
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In this groundbreaking collection of essays, poems, and creative nonfiction, more than…
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Elizabeth Bradshaw
Who builds rockets, programs rovers, and studies other planets? It could be you! In this detailed and engaging book, learn about eighteen careers across the space industry from astrobiologists and…
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Mahogany L. Browne,Elizabeth Acevedo,Olivia Gatwood
A collection of poems to inspire kids to stay woke and become a new generation of activists.
This journal is for the dreamers. The poets. The writers who don’t yet know that they are writers, but know that they have plenty to say.
Featuring lines from Elizabeth…
