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Genre/Form: | Young adult fiction Pura Belpré Award, Author: Winner Young adult works Fiction Juvenile works Juvenile fiction |
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Material Type: | Fiction, Secondary (senior high) school |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Meg Medina |
ISBN: | 9780763658595 0763658596 9780763671648 0763671649 9781484436127 1484436121 9781489819727 148981972X |
OCLC Number: | 812508980 |
Awards: | A Junior Library Guild Selection, 2013 Pura BelpreÌ Award for narration, 2014. Pura BelpreÌ Award, 2014. YALSA 2014 Notable Children's Books, Older Readers ALA 2014 Notable Children's Books, Older Readers School Library Journal's Best Books, 2013 |
Target Audience: | Young Adult. |
Description: | 260 pages ; 22 cm |
Responsibility: | Meg Medina. |
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Tough Situation, Strong Girl
Piddy Sanchez's life is falling apart. Her best friend moves away, she and her mother move to a new apartment, and Piddy's maturing body attracts attention from boys at her new high school. Adjusting to her new school becomes even more difficult when Yaqui, the girlfriend of one of these boys, decides...
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Piddy Sanchez's life is falling apart. Her best friend moves away, she and her mother move to a new apartment, and Piddy's maturing body attracts attention from boys at her new high school. Adjusting to her new school becomes even more difficult when Yaqui, the girlfriend of one of these boys, decides Piddy is shaking her blossoming bootie at her boyfriend. Her bullying starts with one of her "gang" telling Piddy, "Yaqui Delgado wants to kick your ass." Smart and not intentionally shaking her bootie at anyone, Piddy thinks reason can solve the problem, but as Yaqui's bullying continues and grows ever more violent, Piddy has to make some tough decisions about how to handle the situation that has her cutting classes, lying to her mother and denying who she is.
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