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Enthusiasts of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will show up hard for this amazing #ownvoices novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who instructs her report with blazing words and powerful real truth. Xiomara Batista feels unheard and struggling to conceal in her Harlem area. Since her body grew into curves, she has discovered to let her fists and her fierceness do the speaking. But Xiomara has plenty enough she wants to state, and she pours all her stress and interest onto the internet pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers - especially after she catches thoughts for a boy in her bio course named Aman, whom her family can never know about. With Mami's willpower to power her little girl to follow the laws of the church, Xiomara realizes that her thoughts are best retained to herself. So when she is invited to join her school's slam poetry membership, she doesn't understand how she could ever before attend without her mami finding out. But she still can't stop considering executing her poems. Because when confronted with a global that might not exactly want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent.
