Yaqui Delgado Wants To Kick Your Ass
''Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass'' is a 2013 young adult novel by Cuban-American author Meg Medina. The book was first published in the United States on 26 March 2013 through Candlewick Press and is the winner of the 2013 Cybils Award and the 2014 Pura Belpré Award. The book has been challenged in some schools due to its title and language, and deals with the theme of teen bullying and its effects on the individual and their lives. Medina had initially titled the book ''Finding Yaqui del Gado,'' but changed the title upon the publisher's request. The book's premise is based on a similar situation Medina experienced in her youth and she expressed interest in readers using the book as a way to start discussing the topic of bullying. Synopsis Piedad "Piddy" Sanchez is in trouble. Not only has she had to move from her former home and lose one of her friends because of the move, but today she went to school and was told in no uncertain terms that "Yaqui Delgado wants to kick ...
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Meg Medina
Meg Medina is an American children’s book author of Cuban descent whose books celebrate Latino culture and the lives of young people. She is the 2023 – 2024 National Ambassador of Young People’s Literature. Medina is the recipient of the 2019 John Newbery Medal for her middle grade novel, '' Merci Suárez Changes Gears''. Early life and education Medina is the youngest of two daughters of Lidia Regla Metauten and Juan Norberto Medina, who emigrated from Cuba in the early 1960s. The couple separated shortly before Medina’s birth, and her mother relocated with her children to Queens, New York, where they were joined over the years with remaining family members from Cuba. Medina often points to her early life experiences as the underpinnings of her works, which examine themes of immigration, family estrangements, separation from loved ones, and financial hardships. Medina attended P.S. 22 in Flushing, Queens, followed by Junior High School 189. During her high school year ...
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