So far Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass is like no other book we have read, which is enjoyable for me at least. This book is not a high school love story, but a high school social story. Piddy Sanchez (the main character) just switched school and unexpectedly receives a note on the first day saying "Yaqui Delgado wants to kick your ass". The school seems very divided with race and social class. Piddy is a latino, but she does not hangout with the latino group at school, which is the group Yaqui Delgado is in. I have to say the name Yaqui Delgado did not make me think latino. Anyway Piddy has fit herself into the "nerdy" group of people, where bullying seems to be a problem, and she works on finding more about Yaqui Delgado.
The common trend between all of the books we have read is poverty. It is easy to see that poverty is a problem in the book. Piddy lives in a small worn out inner city apartment. While so far the subject of poverty hasn't been stressed it will play an important role in this book.
http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/224953/yaqui-delgado-wants-to-kick-your-ass-by-meg-medina/9780763671648/
https://megmedina.com/booksandreviews/yaqui-delgado-wants-to-kick-your-ass/
https://www.stopbullying.gov/media/facts/index.html
Bullying definitely is a major concept in this story. I don't understand why Yaqui is so mean to Piddy.
ReplyDeleteNic - I agree that poverty plays an important role in the book.
ReplyDeletePoverty is in fact a major theme of this book, That I agree with. As a person who has been bullied before, however I just do not understand how what Yaqui does to Piddy is bullying.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how things would be different in this book if poverty wasnt a factor- if the bullying would be less, or maybe just different?
ReplyDeleteWhen I thought of Yaqui Delgado, I thought of someone of Latino origin but I thought Yaqui would be a guy and maybe even the main character (the book is named after Yaqui after all).
ReplyDeleteI like how this book is more of a high school story instead of a total love story like you said. Poverty seems to be a pretty big aspect in this book as it was in the others also.
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