A review by retiredlibrarylady
Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina

4.0

A really tough book about bullying, real serious bullying, involving physical beating as well as other kinds of intimidation. Piddy Sanchez is in a new home and new school, and things don't go well. Yaqui claims that Piddy is after her boyfriend, and she and her "gang" work to make her life miserable. Piddy goes it alone, telling no one, truly afraid of what would happen if she "squealed". Eventually she ends up in detention and has to come clean to the school administration and her mother. The solution is realistic. There is a secondary story about her friend who is in an abusive home and eventually gets sent to other family in another state. This book has been challenged and even banned, because of its title as much as anything.