Inheritance: A Visual Poem

With the Fire on High

Between Mom and Jo

When Light Left Us

Red Leaves

Two Tribes

Becoming Beatriz

Kendra

In a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives.

Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people…

In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal’s office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash.

Separated by distance—and Papi’s secrets—the two girls are forced to face a new reality in which their father is dead and their lives are forever altered.

And then, when it seems like they’ve lost everything of their father, they learn of each other.

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Inheritance: A Visual Poem

Elizabeth Acevedo, Andrea Pippins, 2022

With the Fire on High

Elizabeth Acevedo, 2019

Between Mom and Jo

Julie Anne Peters, 2006

When Light Left Us

Leah Thomas, 2018

Red Leaves

Sita Brahmachari, 2014

Two Tribes

Emily Bowen Cohen, 2023

Becoming Beatriz

Tami Charles, 2019

Kendra

Coe Booth, 2008