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Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina
4.0
I read this book for Sarah Churchill’s Anti Bullying Week Read-A-Thon and this was the book I was most looking forward to, but I was a little disappointed with it.
This book is about a girl named Piddy (Piedad) Sanchez, who on her first day at her new high school is told by another girl that someone named Yaqui Delgado wants to kick her ass. Piddy has no idea who this girl is or why she’s targeting her but ignoring the problem doesn’t work out and various problems start to arise due to her anxiety.
This book has a storyline that is most similar to my own bullying story, and It was really exciting to find this book. Unfortunately, I thought the plot was a little over the place. Because of the title I assumed it would be centered on the bullying situation only, but was actually more focused on secondary plot lines in the character’s life.
The main character is very similar to me and I genuinely liked her. Her character development was slow but good. And though some of her reactions were a bit annoying, they made sense to her person and her situation. I loved her Latin American heritage (Cuban and Dominican) and how that translated to a lot of Spanish and Spanglish phrases in the book which I thought was a great thought and made me feel at home.
The end was awesome as well, so much so that I was originally going to give this three starts but raised it one because of the ending. Overall, it was an enjoyable book and I’d recommend it.
This book is about a girl named Piddy (Piedad) Sanchez, who on her first day at her new high school is told by another girl that someone named Yaqui Delgado wants to kick her ass. Piddy has no idea who this girl is or why she’s targeting her but ignoring the problem doesn’t work out and various problems start to arise due to her anxiety.
This book has a storyline that is most similar to my own bullying story, and It was really exciting to find this book. Unfortunately, I thought the plot was a little over the place. Because of the title I assumed it would be centered on the bullying situation only, but was actually more focused on secondary plot lines in the character’s life.
The main character is very similar to me and I genuinely liked her. Her character development was slow but good. And though some of her reactions were a bit annoying, they made sense to her person and her situation. I loved her Latin American heritage (Cuban and Dominican) and how that translated to a lot of Spanish and Spanglish phrases in the book which I thought was a great thought and made me feel at home.
The end was awesome as well, so much so that I was originally going to give this three starts but raised it one because of the ending. Overall, it was an enjoyable book and I’d recommend it.