An illustrated journal featuring quotes sprinkled throughout from Elizabeth Acevedo’s National Book Award-winning novel The Poet X, to inspire young readers and writers to create their own masterpieces.

If you’re opening this journal, you’re a writer. A real one.

Featuring lines from Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X among its lined pages, this journal is for the dreamers. The poets. The writers who don’t yet know that they are writers, but know that they have plenty to say.

Let Xiomara’s verses spark your own inspiration, pour your own thoughts and feelings onto the pages—and write the words you need most.