Elizabeth Acevedo

With the Fire on High (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Awardwinning title The Poet X comes a dazzling novel in prose about a girl with talent, pride, and a drive to feed the soul that keeps her fire burning bright. Winner of the California Young Reader Medal!

Ever since she got pregnant freshman year, Emoni Santiago's life has been about making the tough decisionsdoing what has to be done for her daughter and her abuela.

The one place she can let all that go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness.

Even though she dreams of working as a chef after she graduates, Emoni knows that it's not worth her time to pursue the impossible. Yet despite the rules she thinks she has to play by, once Emoni starts cooking, her only choice is to let her talent break free.

Plus don't miss Elizabeth Acevedo's Clap When You Land!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Altersempfehlung: ab 13 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062662859
• Artikelnr.: 56548713

Autorenporträt

ELIZABETH ACEVEDO is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Poet X, which won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, the Pura Belpré Award, the Carnegie medal, the Boston GlobeHorn Book Award, and the Walter Award. She is also the author of With the Fire on Highwhich was named a best book of the year by the New York Public Library, NPR, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journaland Clap When You Land, which was a Boston GlobeHorn Book Honor book and a Kirkus finalist. She holds a BA in Performing Arts from The George Washington University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Maryland. Acevedo has been a fellow of Cave Canem, Cantomundo, and a participant in the Callaloo Writer's Workshops. She is a National Poetry Slam Champion, and resides in Washington, DC with her loves.