Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass

from Debra_Armbruster

I'm really conflicted about this book! On the one hand, I enjoy Piddy's journey. She is a girl with potential, with a kind heart and supportive folks in her corner. But on the other, I am troubled by the book's resolution. _Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass_ focuses on teenaged Piddy Sanchez, ...

from sgrame

Piddy Sanchez has to move to a new home in Queens which means a new school her sophmore year. Things heat up quickly when someone she doesn't even know begins threatening her for her white skin and shaking booty. This is a novel about high school bullying, a girl trying to hold her life together ...

from Mothwing

The main character changes school and suddenly finds herself bullied for unknown reasons from day one. This is a very realistic account of what bullying can turn into. The characters' actions were both familiar to me from my job as well as frustratingly realistic. I've known Piddys and Mitzys, to...

from Sarah220

Really great novel about life as a teenager. Piddy is a smart Latina who is being bullied at school. As the bullying continues, Piddy begins changing in heartbreaking and self-destructive ways. Medina creates an incredibly realistic character and we understand why she does what she does, even tho...

from TheMadHatters

For a story about the horrors of bullying, this was really uplifting. Meg Medina has written a remarkable book about how a teenage girl deals with a teenage bully. This specifically addresses the less-discussed topic of female bullies. It was difficult to read at times, but overall the writing wa...