Ebook {Epub PDF} With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo

 · In With the Fire on High, Elizabeth Acevedo's follow-up to her National Book Award winning debut, The Poet X, she explores a different kind of creative talent through the story of a Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins.  · In this stunning sophomore novel from National Book Award and Printz winner Acevedo (The Poet X), Afro–Puerto Rican and African-American Emoni Santiago, a high school senior, lives in Philadelphia with her two-year-old daughter, Emma—nicknamed Babygirl—and paternal grandmother, ’Buela. A talented cook, Emoni balances school, work at a local burger joint, and Brand: Gale, A Cengage Company. smooths the hair bunned up high on my head. “She’s going to be fine, Emoni. You make sure that y ou have a good first day of school. Be nice to the other kids. Learn a lot.” I lean against her for a quick second and inhale her signature vanilla scent. “Bendición, ’Buela.” “Que Dios te bendiga, nena.” She swats me on the booty.

Elizabeth Acevedo's The Poet X was easily one of the best books I read last year. This novel-in-verse moved and dazzled me, and it is a book I still think about quite often. Her new book, With the Fire on High, is written in traditional prose, and I am equally blown away by what Acevedo created. smooths the hair bunned up high on my head. "She's going to be fine, Emoni. You make sure that y ou have a good first day of school. Be nice to the other kids. Learn a lot." I lean against her for a quick second and inhale her signature vanilla scent. "Bendición, 'Buela." "Que Dios te bendiga, nena." She swats me on the booty. With the Fire on High. By: Elizabeth Acevedo. Narrated by: Elizabeth Acevedo. Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins. Unabridged Audiobook. Categories: Teen Young Adult, Literature Fiction. out of 5 stars. (2, ratings) Add to Cart failed.

With the Fire on High is an ownvoices story, following an Afro-Latinx main character named Emoni. Emoni is a young mom, who got pregnant her freshman year of high school, but this book takes place during her senior year, and her school just opened up registration for a culinary class. In this stunning sophomore novel from National Book Award and Printz winner Acevedo (The Poet X), Afro–Puerto Rican and African-American Emoni Santiago, a high school senior, lives in Philadelphia with her two-year-old daughter, Emma—nicknamed Babygirl—and paternal grandmother, ’Buela. A talented cook, Emoni balances school, work at a local burger joint, and motherhood—including shared custody with her ex-boyfriend, Tyrone—with moments in the kitchen, where her “magical hands. With the Fire on High Quotes Showing of “And sometimes focusing on what you can control is the only way to lessen the pang in your chest when you think about the things you can't.”. ― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High. tags: inspirational.