Review: The Poet X

Such a fabulous book. I had the pleasure of sharing it with a Dominican American student in my class and they said they found themselves in it.

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The Poet X: A Novel by Elizabeth Acevedo. HarperTeen, HarperCollins, New York, 2018. Novel in verse, 378 pages. Lexile:  HL800L ( What does HL mean in Lexile? ) AR Level: not yet leveled

Dominican-American teen Xiomara Batisa is one half of a pair of miraculous twins – their birth to older parents caused her philandering father to change his ways and reaffirmed their mother’s devotion to her Catholic faith.  Her genius brother Xavier skipped a grade and is living up to their miracle status, while she defends his comic book collection and feels inadequate.

Target seems to be shelving more and more diverse novels that I’m interested in reading.  There’s been some buzz about this one, but I didn’t know many details.  I think because of the title, I assumed it had to do with Malcolm X and just wasn’t interested.  But that’s not what this book is about at…

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