Elizabeth Acevedo

high praise I need to I have this on my books I bought it and I haven't read it yet but I need to I need to get into I highly recommend it.

I also want to call out the Young Readers Lit is Elizabeth Acevedo's Anger is Only a Shadow.

Elizabeth Acevedo will also be at the Texas Book Festival for anyone in Texas.

She wrote Poet X.

She wrote Clap When You Land.

Well, sure.

Okay, so Elizabeth Acevedo is hardly off the beaten path, but she's a YA author.

And even though you talked about Sunrise on The Reaping and Suzanne Collins, Jeff, some adult readers think like, oh, well, that's for the kids.

That's not for me.

I'm joined as always by my intrepid co-host, Milena Gonzalez.

And this week, New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo spoke with us about her journey from National Poetry Slam Champion to winning the National Book Award for Young People's Literature and her new YA novel, Anger is Only a Shadow.

Elizabeth is a renowned poet and New York Times bestselling author of Clap When You Land, With the Fire on High, and The Poet X, which won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpre Award, among many others.

Her first YA novel in six years, Anger is Only a Shadow, is her most personal offering yet, inspired by her experience leading poetry workshops for girls awaiting adjudication at the Youth Services Center in Washington, DC, as well as loving and caring for someone with schizophrenia.

Yes, we are back on The Writer Files, and I'm very honored today to be joined by an esteemed guest.

We are hanging out with a very talented author.

We're hanging out with Elizabeth Acevedo, and of course, National Book Award winner, New York Times bestseller, and so much more.

Poet, author, and, uh, also a National Poetry Slam Champion.

The vote came during the board's meeting at the Fort Mill Public Library.

The five titles moved are Nineteen Love Songs by David Levithan, The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo, When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff, People Kill People by Ellen Hopkins, and Sold by Patricia McCormick.

Library staff reviewed the complaints under the board's collection development policy and recommended keeping four of the books where they were and moving only one of them.

The board's policy and appeals committee rejected the recommendation, and the full board upheld the committee in the removal of all titles.

The twenty twenty-six Kirkus Prize winners have also recently been announced.

The Kirkus Prize exists to highlight more than ninety-three years of thoughtful criticism Kirkus Reviews has contributed to the world of books.

The winner of the Kirkus Prize in young people's literature is a recent release, Anger Is Only a Shadow by Elizabeth Acevedo, which released on September fifteenth.

The Kirkus Prize only has three categories: fiction, nonfiction, and young readers literature, compared to five from the National Book Award, which includes categories for poetry and translated literature.

So that's going to be a really beautiful opening session on Saturday morning.

Another session that I am so excited about for on Saturday is The Future is Female with Elizabeth Acevedo.

Dr. Diamond Ford, Asia Monet, and Patricia Smith.

It's going to be a powerhouse session where fierce female power take the stage.

Yes.

Catch the Devil by Pamela Coloff wins for nonfiction, and Anger is Only a Shadow by the great Elizabeth Acevedo, uh, wins for the teen.

Um, and I think that's it.

They had a long list and short list and all that other stuff and jurors and that's all I really care about.

Yeah.

The third book that on my list is Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo.

Now this book is about two sisters who discover each other after their father dies in a plane crash.

This book is written in verse, and it is really a novel about grief, love, and family secrets.

Clap When You Land was banned because of discussions of sexual assault and LGBTQ plus themes.

And FYI, this book has won multiple awards, and Elizabeth Acevedo is a New York Times bestselling author.

The fourth book that is on my list is The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw.

The Secret Lives of Church Lady consists of nine short stories about Black women, faith, and sexuality.