{"id":194,"date":"2019-05-14T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/?p=194"},"modified":"2019-05-14T13:44:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T13:44:34","slug":"the-poet-x-by-elizabeth-acevedo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/2019\/05\/14\/the-poet-x-by-elizabeth-acevedo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (Carnegie Medal Shortlisted Book)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 325px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51qcTryETFL._SX323_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"499\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Poet X<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Xiomara has always kept her words to herself. When it comes to standing her ground in her Harlem neighbourhood, she lets her fists and her fierceness do the talking.<\/p>\n<p>But X has secrets \u2013 her feelings for a boy in her bio class, and the notebook full of poems that she keeps under her bed. And a slam poetry club that will pull those secrets into the spotlight.<\/p>\n<p>Because in spite of a world that might not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to stay silent.<\/p>\n<p><i>A novel about finding your voice and standing up for what you believe in, no matter how hard it is to say. Brave, bold and beautifully written &#8211; dealing with issues of race, feminism and faith &#8211; this is perfect for fans of Orangeboy, Nicola Yoon&#8217;s Everything Everything and Zoella Book Club choice Moxie.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xiomara has always kept her words to herself. When it comes to standing her ground in her Harlem neighbourhood, she lets her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But X has secrets \u2013 her feelings for a boy in her bio class, and the notebook full of poems that she keeps under her bed. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/2019\/05\/14\/the-poet-x-by-elizabeth-acevedo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (Carnegie Medal Shortlisted Book)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/ahslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}