Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, Meg Medina
Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, Meg Medina
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Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass

Author: Meg Medina

Narrator: Roxanne Hernandez

Unabridged: 6 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 03/12/2013

Synopsis

“Yaqui Delgado wants to kick your ass.”That’s what some girl tells Piddy Sanchez one morning before school. Too bad Piddy doesn’t even know who Yaqui Delgado is, let alone what she’s done to piss her off. All Piddy knows is that Yaqui hates her—and she better watch her back because Yaqui isn’t kidding around.At first Piddy just focuses on trying to find out more about the father she’s never met and how to balance honors courses with her weekend job at the neighborhood hair salon. But as the harassment escalates, avoiding Yaqui and her gang starts to take over Piddy’s life. Is there any way for Piddy to survive without closing herself off and running away from her problems?In this poignant and all-too-realistic story from award-winning author Meg Medina, Piddy is forced to decide exactly who she is versus who others are trying to make her become—and ultimately discovers a rhythm that is all her own.

About Meg Medina

Meg Medina is the author of the young adult novel The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind and the 2012 recipient of the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award for her picture book, Tía Isa Wants a Car, illustrated by Claudio Muñoz. About Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, she says, “Years ago, when I was in school, a girl in a rabbit-fur jacket cornered me in the school yard and announced that one of our school bullies, a Latina girl named Jackie, was going to beat me up. What I remember most from that time was loneliness and all the risky choices I made as I embarked on the search for a tough-girl shell that could withstand any attack. But as I struggled against the dread of being in school, I became someone else entirely. I hid every talent and interest I had in the hope of appearing fierce and untouchable to Jackie and the rest of the world. It was a struggle to find my identity and inner strength — as a student, as a young woman, as a Latina. I was in a fight for my dignity.” The daughter of Cuban immigrants, Meg Medina grew up in Queens, New York, and now lives in Richmond, Virginia.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lara on April 07, 2013

I liked this, but...don't totally understand all the rave reviews. I never quite managed to connect with Piddy or any of the other characters, and while I can certainly get behind the message (bullying = bad), I can't help wishing there was a little more depth here. Or something. I never really felt......more

Goodreads review by BookNightOwl on October 21, 2019

This was one of the audiobooks I received for free through the free audiobook summer program. I decided to give it a try. I liked how it talked about Bullying, mother daughter relationships, absent fathers, and even change in our lives and how we deal with it. I enjoyed the cast of characters. Some......more

Goodreads review by Julie on July 17, 2019

I didn't really want to read this; the cover's boldness somehow made me think it was trying too hard to be edgy, so I imagined a sacrine story about a girl who finds out that another girl only threatens her because of her issues at home, and in the end, they become good friends. I don't know how I g......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on August 13, 2016

Oooh, I really liked this one! I've been thinking a lot about my frustration with my teen students--why don't they care about x? Why does it take them so long to do y? All of this is classroom stuff, of course, and those questions make me realize that I am very firmly AN ADULT and that I quite often......more

Goodreads review by Deacon Tom on April 02, 2022

Grrrrrrrrr. So frustrating! The review disappeared.......more

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