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Elizabeth Acevedo is a National Book Award winning author for Young People's Literature, the Carnegie medal, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, among other honors.
She will discuss her novel-in-verse, The Poet X. The novel is about a young, Afro-Latina heroine who deals with a crush, pressure to obey the church, and her own feelings of frustration and passion which she puts into poetry.
For more information and to register, click here.
Online event, MA
United States
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