TY - BOOK AU - Acevedo,Elizabeth TI - The Poet X SN - 9781432864583 AV - PZ7.5.A35 Po 2019 U1 - FIC ACE 23 PY - 2019/// PB - Thorndike Press KW - Novels in verse KW - High schools KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Schools KW - Self-esteem KW - Families KW - New York (State) KW - Harlem KW - Poetry slams KW - Dominican Americans KW - Teenage girls KW - High school students KW - Poets KW - Adolescence KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Large type books KW - Harlem (New York, N.Y.) KW - New York (N.Y.) KW - Young adult fiction N1 - "Thorndike PressĀ® Large Print The Literacy Bridge."--Title page verso N2 - Curvaceous sixteen-year-old Xiomara Batista discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her fiercely religious mother's view of women, as well as her relationship to a world dominated by rape-culture ER -