For Strong Girls Who Like Poetry: Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X

Enjoy YA coming of age books,
Struggled with fitting into religious expectations as a teenager,
Clashed with your immigrant parents over cultural differences as an American teenager,
Love slam poetry

A Classic Remix

are a fan of Pride and Prejudice,
enjoy YA books that explore coming of age in a world rife with social prejudices,
like sassy leading ladies,
want to be transported into the world of Afro-Latino culture in Brooklyn,
are looking for a strong #ownvoices book,
want to listen to an audiobook read by a New Yorker with poetry and soul in her voice

know someone who is young, free-spirited, and difficult to define or pin down,
have heard the call of the wild,
like nonfiction books in which the writer must do a bit of sleuthing in order to understand their subjects