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A review by mellabella
Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina
4.0
Wow. This book had been on my list for a little while. I should have read it sooner.
Piddy is a character that you will root for. You'll feel a visceral dislike for the aforementioned Yaqui Delgado as she and her group of friends harasses Piddy.
I wouldn't pay to be 15, 16 again.
Some of us had a Yaqui. Some of us had an absent parent and another parent rearing us that might not have been born in the US.
Dealing with all the feeling of heading towards young adulthood, school, boys, your body changing (or not) AND dealing with a bully as a teenage girl? All the while your best friend moves further away and seems to not have time for you anymore?
The writing is so good and real... This was a realistic look at bullying. An authentic voice of a teenage girl just trying to make it through high school. Once an honor student, the bullying changes that.
Curious about her father who left when her mother was pregnant...
I loved Piddy's mom and her best friend Lila. They seemed real enough to jump out of the pages.
It had a satisfying ending. BUT I would have loved an epilogue telling us how Joey was doing.
4.5 stars
Piddy is a character that you will root for. You'll feel a visceral dislike for the aforementioned Yaqui Delgado as she and her group of friends harasses Piddy.
I wouldn't pay to be 15, 16 again.
Some of us had a Yaqui. Some of us had an absent parent and another parent rearing us that might not have been born in the US.
Dealing with all the feeling of heading towards young adulthood, school, boys, your body changing (or not) AND dealing with a bully as a teenage girl? All the while your best friend moves further away and seems to not have time for you anymore?
The writing is so good and real... This was a realistic look at bullying. An authentic voice of a teenage girl just trying to make it through high school. Once an honor student, the bullying changes that.
Curious about her father who left when her mother was pregnant...
I loved Piddy's mom and her best friend Lila. They seemed real enough to jump out of the pages.
It had a satisfying ending. BUT I would have loved an epilogue telling us how Joey was doing.
4.5 stars