The Poet X Children's Basketball Books and the obstacles they lay

and the obstacles they lay in Thurwar’s path have devastating consequences

and Wylan in Crooked Kingdom

New York Times bestselling author Michael Arceneaux returns with a hilarious collection of essays about making your voice heard in an increasingly noisy and chaotic world

their fates become intertwined in ways that defy all reason

”—Diana Gabaldon

The Poet X Children's Basketball Books and the obstacles they layWinner of the National Book Award for Young Peoples Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpr Award! Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times bestselling novel in verse by an award winning slam poet, 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.