The Poet X Kacen Callender Winner of the National Book

Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature

her brother’s best friend and the object of a decade-long crush that she’s never quite gotten over

"Laugh-out-loud

Told in Patti Callahan Henry’s lyrical

When things escalate in real life

The Poet X Kacen Callender Winner of the National BookWinner of the National Book Award for Young Peoples Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpr Award! Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times bestselling 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.