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#Best books to read 2017 for young adults series#

Read an Exclusive Excerpt of The Poet X!.

Because in the face of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent. But still, she can’t stop thinking about performing her poems. 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, much less speak her words out loud. With Mami’s determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, Xiomara understands that her thoughts are best kept to herself.

Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.īut 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. Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Here are the 50 biggest and buzziest young adult books to hit shelves this year! Also note, these are in no particular order. Can you believe?! To refresh our memories, we got to work.

#Best books to read 2017 for young adults series#

This is the first in a two-part series that will feature, hopefully, most of the books that your 2018 TBR comprised of! The *Book Shimmy* Awards have just begun, and we know that if you’re anything like us, you’ve either forgotten everything you read this year or just can’t believe it’s been so long. The end of the year is on the horizon, and we’re taking a look back at the books that helped make our reading year so dang phenomenal.Īnd, let’s be honest, there were a lot of books.