Author
Elizabeth Acevedo
3 books here
The Poet X
Verse novel · ages 14–18 · 840L · 2018
Verse-form coming-of-age that respects both Xiomara's voice and her family's faith without collapsing into sentimentality; a genuinely difficult conversation about love, identity, and obedience delivered with lyrical precision.
With the Fire on High
Verse novel · ages 14–18 · 780L · 2019
A verse novel that refuses pity—Emoni's story of balancing single motherhood and culinary ambition is funny, sensual, and fundamentally about refusing to shrink herself.
Clap When You Land
Verse novel · ages 14–18 · 820L
Acevedo's dual-voice verse about two sisters discovering each other after their father's death is urgent, tender, and genuinely funny in places—the verse form makes the emotional weight land without melodrama.