AudioFile Favorites: THE POET X by Elizabeth Acevedo, read by Elizabeth Acevedo

An audiobook you absolutely have to hear. Jo Reed and AudioFile Publisher Michele Cobb express their admiration for the author’s poetic performance of her own work, one of AudioFile’s favorites and a National Book Award and Carnegie Medal winner. Xiomara is a 15-year-old first-generation Dominican-American girl who finds her voice through poetry. Acevedo’s performance chops pull the listener into Xiomara’s world, making this audiobook the ideal way to experience this novel. Published by Harper Audio.
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An audiobook you absolutely have to hear. Jo Reed and AudioFile Publisher Michele Cobb express their admiration for the author’s poetic performance of her own work, one of AudioFile’s favorites and a National Book Award and Carnegie Medal winner. Xiomara is a 15-year-old first-generation Dominican-American girl who finds her voice through poetry. Acevedo’s performance chops pull the listener into Xiomara’s world, making this audiobook the ideal way to experience this novel. Published by Harper Audio.

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Support for Behind the Mic with AudioFile Magazine comes from Paperback Classics, a new imprint from Oasis Family Media, bringing the best vintage pulp paperbacks to audio, including the 1960s cult-classic series Dark Shadows.

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