Name: Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
ISBN: 9780763658595

Meg Medina

Informed that a bully she does not know is determined to beat her up Latin American teen Piddy Sanchez struggles to learn more about the father she has never met, until the bully's gang forces her to confront more difficult challenges.

Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass

It was a great book and I thought it was very entertaining 

Stella

Melissa Palmer

Book #49 Read in 2015
Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina (YA)

Piddy has recently changed high schools. Almost immediately, for no reason that she can think of, resident bad girl Yaqui Delgado is rumored to want to fight Piddy. Piddy begins to be bullied and harassed by Yaqui and her group of girls. Piddy doesn't want to admit it and by not doing so, her grades begin to flounder and her personality changes drastically. This book shows how difficult high school can be on students and the effect that bullying has on its victims. It was a powerful read and I think high school girls especially would love it. 

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Nadine 

Tough book on a tough theme of extreme bullying of the kind we luckily haven't seen in the international school system. 
As previous commenters have mentioned - it's the silence of the victim that results in an escalation. Interesting the contrast between the bullying and the domestic violence of her friend's mother.

Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass

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