Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass

My first impressions of Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass is that I loved it. I loved how the story unfolds so quickly. Just like in many of the stories our class has been reading Piddy and her mother Clara are poor, in all of the books we have read in class many of the characters are poor and dealt with poverty. Boom from the start you know exactly who Yaqui Delgado is, and what she plans on doing to Piddy. I can't help but feel bad for Piddy since she has to leave her old school, and her friends. I also feel bad because a girl she doesn't even know what to kick her ass, and Piddy can't seem to figure out why. It's a shame Piddy has to overhear a conversation to find out why her mother and father aren't together, but I do feel Piddy frustration because Piddy has no idea what her father looks like, no memories of him, not a single picture and no one in her life seems to discuss him.  Piddy is constantly tormenting herself mental because of Yaqui Delgado and her sidekicks. As the story unfolds you see how Yaqui Delgado takes over many aspects of Piddy life because she is constantly thinking of Yaqui. You watch how the torment of Yaqui slowly changes the characteristics of Piddy. Piddy starts to act out of character and doesn't know how to cope with Yaqui's constant bullying. In the beginning of the story Piddy was an honors student and did wonderful in school, she never was late to class or missed an assignment. Soon that all changes Piddy starts going to class late, and gets caught not doing her homework. Overall Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass was a wonderful book. I couldn't seem to stop reading it. I ended up finishing the whole book in one day. So far this is my favorite book we have read in class.