Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass Reading Guide & Discussion Questions

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For supplemental discussion material see our Beyond the Book article, Popular Latin Dances and our BookBrowse Review of Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass.

Please be aware that this discussion guide will contain spoilers!

1. Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass is a title that grabs your attention. What makes it so fitting for this novel?
2. At Piddy's new high school, kids tend to eat lunch with their own kind — blacks with blacks, Latinas with Latinas, and nerds with nerds. Does this also happen at your school? If so, why? Why is there often so little diversity in social groups?
3. On the surface, Lila and Piddy's mother seem like polar opposites, but look deeper. What are the significant differences between the two women? What are the abiding similarities? Why does Piddy need them both?

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