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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Talk with Elizabeth Acevedo
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Acevedo will be the featured author. This virtual 
 author talk will be followed by a live Q&A session where participants can 
 ask questions directly with the author. Brought to you in partnership with 
 the Library Speakers Consortium\, which provides access to a range of talks 
 from bestselling authors and thought leaders. Via Zoom. The link for 
 registration will be available closer to the program date. Please click 
 here to register and receive the Zoom link.\n\nThis program is made 
 possible by the Friends of the Summit Free Public Library.\n\nYou’re 
 invited to learn about the power of poetry with Elizabeth Acevedo! In this 
 exciting author conversation and Q&A\, Acevedo will provide a short reading 
 from her National Book Award winning and New York Times bestselling 
 novel-in-verse\, The Poet X serving as the backdrop to this amazing 
 chat!\n\nThe Poet X is about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story 
 with blazing words and powerful truth. Xiomara Batista feels unheard and 
 unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into 
 curves\, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the 
 talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say\, and she pours all her 
 frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook\, reciting the 
 words to herself like prayers—especially after she catches feelings for a 
 boy in her bio class named Aman\, who her family can never know 
 about.\n\nWith Mami’s determination to force her daughter to obey the 
 laws of the church\, Xiomara understands that her thoughts are best kept to 
 herself. So when she is invited to join her school’s slam poetry club\, 
 she doesn’t know how she could ever attend without her mami finding out. 
 But she still can’t stop thinking about performing her poems. Because in 
 the face of a world that may not want to hear her\, Xiomara refuses to be 
 silent.\n\nA virtual author talk you don’t want to miss–come create out 
 loud with Elizabeth Acevedo! Register now!\n\nAbout the Author 
 \n\nElizabeth Acevedo is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Poet 
 X\, which won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature\, the 
 Michael L. Printz Award\, the Pura Belpré Award\, the Carnegie medal\, the 
 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award\, and the Walter Award. She is also the 
 author of numerous other titles including Family Lore\; With the Fire on 
 High\, which was named a best book of the year by the New York Public 
 Library\, NPR\, Publishers Weekly\, and School Library Journal\; and Clap 
 When You Land\, a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor book and a Kirkus 
 finalist. Acevedo has been a fellow of Cave Canem\, Cantomundo\, and a 
 participant in the Callaloo Writer’s Workshops. She is a National Poetry 
 Slam Champion\, and resides in Washington\, DC with her husband.\n\nJoin 
 Meeting: https://libraryc.org/summitlibrary/50641/register
ORGANIZER;CN="Abby Brady":MAILTO:abrady@summitlibrary.org
CATEGORIES:Adult events, Authors for Kids, CATSS, High School (Grades 9-12), Teen (Grades 6-12), Teen Night
CONTACT;CN="Abby Brady":MAILTO:abrady@summitlibrary.org
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