With the Fire on High

Teenage mother Emoni is trying to keep her head down at school, but finds a meaningful outlet in cooking. A novel about finding food for the soul.

Elizabeth Acevedo is the New York Times bestselling and 2019 Carnegie Medal winning author of THE POET X. She is also the author of WITH THE FIRE ON HIGH, CLAP WHEN YOU LAND, and the winner of, amongst others, the National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Fiction. Elizabeth resides in Washington, DC with her family.