'With The Fire On High' Cooks Up A Powerful Message
Elizabeth Acevedo follows up her National Book Award-winning The Poet X with this story of a young woman juggling high school, single motherhood, and work while dreaming of becoming a chef.
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 teenage girl, Emoni Santiago, who many would foolishly dismiss as a classic cautionary tale.
Emoni got pregnant her freshman year of high school, and now that she's a senior, she has to juggle parenting her Babygirl with passing her classes and holding down a
