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Meg Medina

(1963) Children's Writer United States

23 quotes in 40 categories

Meg Medina is a children's writer from the United States, best known for Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass.

Quick Facts About Meg Medina

Born: June 11, 1963
Nationality: United States
Profession: Children's Writer
Notable works: Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass

About Meg Medina

Meg Medina is an American children’s book author of Cuban descent whose books celebrate Latino culture and the lives of young people. She served as the 2023–2024 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Medina is the recipient of the 2019 John Newbery Medal for her middle grade novel, Merci Suárez Changes Gears and the Pura Belpré Award for Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass (2014) and the Pura Belpré Award Honor Book in 2016 for Mango, Abuela and Me).

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Newbery Medal Belpré Medal

Quotes by Meg Medina

“You know where this Yaqui girl is going to be in a few years if she doesn't change? She'll still be there,…

Fear

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“How can you say bad things about someone you don’t know?” I shout. “How can you hate a stranger? Why do you…

Bad thing

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“Yeah, sure. That’s what you think.” She sounds a little sad when she says it. A boy hasn’t looked Mitzi in the…

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“It was Ma who first noticed my body changing, but she wasn't exactly tactful about my getting cuerpo. "Put on a bra…

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“Darlene rolls her eyes – again – like I’m the stupid one. White-skinned. No accent. Good in school. I’m not her idea…

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“Nothing ends. There is only transformation, ugly as it may be.”

Change

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“SKANK is scribbled in ballpoint pen on my desk. I don’t exactly know why my heart starts to thump. It’s not like…

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“Nobody is in the school yard when I get there, except for a few guys hanging near the fence. I recognize a…

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“When I look up, I’m surprised to find myself in front of the old building. My feet must have gone on autopilot.…

Way home

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You never forget the books you loved as a kid. You never forget the poems you memorized, the first book you read…

Book

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“The camera does a close-up on the girl who can miraculously see again. It cuts to the mother-in-law, then to the clueless…

Marriage

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“Nobody is ever beating off starvation at Mitzi’s house. Her parents are so utterly boring, old-fashioned, and ordinary. Her dad works at…

Parenting

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“Son unas cualquieras,” she mutters. Nobodies. No culture, no family life, illiterates, she means. The kind of people who make her cross…

Family life

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“The whole building was probably listening in on her escandalo through the pipes; maybe even the whole block could hear. That tells…

Worst thing

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“I can’t get Yaqui Delgado out of my mind. Plenty of girls shake their junk. How is that enough to make somebody…

Psychology

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“Sometimes it's hard to wait for good things to happen. - Tia Isa”

Good thing

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“School is no better. Since the day I “played’ fastball, when I step up to the chain-link fence each morning, my shoulders…

Psychology

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“I grip the edge of the table. It’s not fair that I have to upend my life because Yaqui is bloodthirsty. But…

Life

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“In face, all I have left of my father is his last name – and I think that’s only because Ma couldn’t…

Parenting

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Take care not to listen to anyone who tells you what you can and can't be in life.

Care

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“Estas hecha una mujer.” She shakes her head sadily. A lot of the salon women tell me this: “You’ve become a woman.”…

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When I write now, I pretend I'm holding hands with the old me. I try to make sense of all those questions…

Hands

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“I grip my charm tighter. All I can think about is Yaqui Delgado’s eyes, about what kind of cloak she wears, what…

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