# Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass: The Graphic Novel

**Author:** Meg Medina
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**First published:** 2023
**Page count:** 289
**ISBN-13:** `9781536235333`
**ISBN-10:** `1536235334`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/yaqui-delgado-wants-to-kick-your-ass
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Newbery Medalist Meg Medina returns to her powerful YA novel about school bullying with a dynamic graphic-novel edition adapted and illustrated by Mel Valentine Vargas. It’s the beginning of sophomore year, and Piedad “Piddy” Sanchez is having a hard time adjusting to her new high school. Things don’t get any easier when Piddy learns that Yaqui Delgado hates her and wants to kick her ass. Piddy doesn’t even know who Yaqui is, never mind what she’s done to piss her off. Rumor has it that Yaqui thinks Piddy is stuck-up, shakes her stuff when she walks, and isn’t Latina enough with her white skin, good grades, and no accent. And Yaqui isn’t kidding around, so Piddy better watch her back. At first, Piddy is more concerned with learning about the father she’s never met, navigating her rocky rel

## Where this book is assigned

### Pura Belpré Author Award

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