[DeepL Translation - needs review] The novel that revived young people's passion for poetry.
-New York Times bestseller.
-Winner of the National Book Award, the Michael L. Printz Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Award for Fiction, the Pura Belpré Author Award and the Carnegie Medal.
Xiomara Batista feels ignored and unable to hide in Harlem.
Since her body became curvaceous, she has learned to let her fists and her toughness speak for her.
But X has a lot to say, so she dumps her frustration on ...
Beautiful, Powerful, and a Quick Read
This was the first book I've read in Spanish in quite a while and I was delighted to find myself devouring it in two days.
The Spanish: Poet X is a novel in verse, so while it's technically 350 pages long, it's not terribly text dense. I definitely looked up some words as I was reading, but I'd say that this is a totally doable first or second book in Spanish. It's worth mentioning that it's a translation from English, but the author is Dominican-American, so the cultural context is still