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Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass is a 2013 young adult novel by Cuban-American author Meg Medina.The book was first published in the United States on 26 March 2013 through Candlewick Press and is the winner of the 2013 Cybils Award and the 2014 Pura Belpré Award.
Merci Suárez Changes Gears is a 2018 children's book (based on a short story from Flying Lessons and Other Stories) written by Meg Medina. Mercedes "Merci" Suárez, the eponymous heroine, is a sixth grade scholarship student at an elite private school in South Florida. The novel details her struggles at school and home.
Burn Baby Burn is a 2016 young adult novel written by Cuban-American author Meg Medina.It was first published in March, 2016 through Candlewick Press and follows a young woman growing up during the summer of 1977, when the Son of Sam began targeting young women.
Mango, Abuela, and Me is a 2015 children's book written by Meg Medina and illustrated by Angela Dominguez. It was first published on August 25, 2015 through Candlewick Press and was a 2016 Belpré Honor Book. [1] While writing the book Medina drew upon her experiences growing up with her grandmother Abuela Bena. [2]
Last Rumba in Havana is a novel by the Afro-Cuban dissident writer and journalist Fernando Velázquez Medina, [1] who was born in Havana in 1951. It was published in New York in December 2001 by the Hispanic newspaper chain Hoy LLC, and boasts a cover designed by the Colombian artist Juan Arango.
The Jewel of Medina is a historical novel by Sherry Jones that recounts the life of Aisha, one of Muhammad's wives, [1] from the age of six, when she was betrothed to Muhammad, to her death. [ 2 ] Although the novel was originally scheduled for release in 2008, the publication run was canceled by Random House due to concerns about possibly ...
Portrait of José Toribio Medina by Francisco Tristán, 1886. In 1920, the Chilean historian published a comprehensive study of Magellan containing an impressive amount of biographical information, a detailed analysis of the beginning and development of the voyage of circumnavigation, and a remarkable amount of information on the crews of the Armada de Molucca.
Al-Abwab wa al-Tarajim li Sahih al-Bukhari: A book on the chapters and biographies of Sahih al-Bukhari was primarily written during Kandhlawi's teaching career. When he was residing in Medina in 1390 AH, he reviewed everything he had written over the past four decades for the purpose of writing his book.