The Poet X Children's Basketball Books When Chance and Metal Head

When Chance and Metal Head embark on an adventure to find their forever homes

brilliantly written

and Nikki Giovanni

their fates become intertwined in ways that defy all reason

The Poet X Children's Basketball Books When Chance and Metal HeadWinner of the National Book Award for Young Peoples Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpr Award! Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times bestselling novel in verse by an award winning slam poet, about an Afro Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing words and powerful truth. Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood.