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Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘The Poet X’ by Elizabeth Acevedo

National Young Person’s Poet Laureate Elizabeth Acevedo’s “The Poet X,” a National Book Award-winner and a New York Times best-seller, follows the story of Xiomara, a rising tenth grader in Harlem. The novel explores the beautiful and ugly realities of…

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