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Clap When You Land: Elizabeth Acevedo's 2020 BGHB Fiction and Poetry Honor Speech
I am delighted to be an honoree of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards. From years of following this award [ed. note: and winning it in 2018 for The Poet X], I know that the judges tend to be readers who are thoughtful and with a high standard of excellence. It...
BGHB 2020: Clap When You Land
Welcome to Fiction and Poetry week of our first-ever, month-long virtual Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards celebration. Today, judge Sujei Lugo introduces the 2020 BGHB Fiction and Poetry Honor Book Clap When You Land: The 2020 Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book Award for Fiction and Poetry is presented to Elizabeth...
Review of Clap When You Land
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo High School Quill Tree/HarperCollins 422 pp. g 5/20 978-0-06-288276-9 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-288278-3 $11.99 In this sharp and compelling verse novel (a 2020 Boston Globe–Horn Book honoree), sixteen-year-old Camino Rios lives in the Dominican Republic and dreams of medical school. Sixteen-year-old Yahaira Rios...
Five questions for Elizabeth Acevedo
In Clap When You Land (Quill Tree/HarperCollins, 14 years and up), two teens — Camino, who lives in the Dominican Republic, and Yahaira, who lives in New York City — discover they are half-sisters after their father perishes in a plane crash. Told in alternating verse, the story — winner...
Review of With the Fire on High
With the Fire on Highby Elizabeth AcevedoHigh School HarperTeen 392 pp.5/19 978-0-06-266283-5 $17.99e-book ed. 978-0-06-266285-9 $9.99High school senior Emoni Santiago, whose “Puerto Rican side is as Black as [her] Black American side,” is many things — an aspiring chef, a proud North Philly native, a reserved student who keeps to...
Be "the hero and the author" of your story
Photo: Elissa Gershowitz.If you have the opportunity to see Elizabeth Acevedo speak, go.I was lucky enough to attend two of her events as the inaugural Gwen Ifill Mentor-in-Residence at Simmons University last week, and I still can't get enough.* (And that's in addition to hearing her Fiction & Poetry Award...
BGHB, NBA, BELPRÉ, PRINTZ...
... and tonight Elizabeth Acevedo is speaking at Simmons University, free at 5:30 in the Paresky Center. Go! She is a prodigious talent and, as I learned last night, a formidable dinner companion, keeping me on my toes all evening. (Thank you to Cathie Mercier for including me.) You can...
2018 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Winner Interviews
On October 6th, the morning following the 2018 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards ceremony, Roger Sutton sat down to chat with several of the winners and judges. Watch their conversations below; click on the tag BGHB18 for much more (speeches! photos! timeline! reviews!) on the winning books and the ceremony itself.Picture...
The Poet X: Elizabeth Acevedo's 2018 BGHB Fiction & Poetry Award Speech
I am so honored to be receiving the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award. I want to give thanks to my agent, Ammi-Joan Paquette, who believed in my voice long before I had much to show for it. And who trusted her gut enough to tell me when certain projects I sent...
Review of The Poet X
The Poet Xby Elizabeth AcevedoHigh School HarperTeen 361 pp. g3/18 978-0-06-266280-4 $17.99e-book ed. 978-0-06-266282-8 $9.99Fifteen-year-old Xiomara, whose name means “one who is ready for war,” has been fighting her whole life. The self-described “brown and big and angry” Dominican girl from Harlem furiously confronts catcalling boys, chafes under her Catholic...