Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass By Meg Medina

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Artist: Meg Medina

Year: 2013

Date of Action: September 2013

Region: North America

Location: Cumberland Middle School

Subject: Political/Economic/Social Opinion, Violence, Youth

Medium: Literature

Confronting Bodies: Meg Medina, Cumberland County (VA)

Description of Artwork: Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina is a novel about a girl's coming apart as she is the victim of a bully.

The Incident: YA author Meg Medina was scheduled to come to Cumberland Middle School in Virginia to speak at an anti-bully event. However, the school's board of education deemed the front cover, the title, and the language in the novel to be too inappropriate for the students.

Results of Incident: Medina had highly anticipated coming in to speak about her book, and she defended that the presentation was not going to focus at all on the language used in the novel but the message to stop bullying. However, the school decided that it could teach bully prevention without the "unacceptable language" used by the characters in the novel.

Source:
http://www.wric.com/story/23393043/author-appearance-canceled-over