Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
by Meg Medina
Sixteen-year-old Piedad "Piddy" Sanchez isn't sure what she's done to attract the... read more
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Area
- Latinx
Year Published 2013
Word Count 55,599
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 670L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.3
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 157469
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Spanish
- Subject Headings
- Schools
- Teenage girls
- Bullying in schools
- Teenage girls--Juvenile fiction
- Bullies--Fiction
- Teenage girls--Fiction
- Hispanic American teenage girls
- Bullying in schools--Juvenile fiction
- Schools--Juvenile fiction
- Schools--Fiction
- Young Adult Fiction | People & Places | United States - Hispanic & Latino
- Hispanic Americans
- Bullies
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Book Guides, Activities & Lessons 7
Story Map Multi-Leveled Lesson
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Cultural Representation Reflection
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Discussion Guide from Rhode Island Teen Book Award
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Lesson Plan from Teaching Latin America through Literature
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Awards & Distinctions 8

Pura Belpré Awards, 1996-2020
Author Winner, 2014

Américas Award, 1993-2020
Commended, 2014

Notable Children's Books, 1995-2020
Commended, 2014

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2014

International Latino Book Awards, 2000-2020
First Place Winner, 2014

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2020
City Selection, 2013

SLJ Best Books of the Year, 2010 - 2020
Selection, 2013
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