All Books By Meg Medina

Meg Medina is the 2023-2024 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. She is the author of the Newbery Medal–winning book Merci Suárez Changes Gears, which was also a 2018 Kirkus Prize finalist, and which was followed by two more acclaimed books about the Suárez family: Merci Suárez Can’t Dance and Merci Suárez Plays It Cool.

Her young adult novels include Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, which won the 2014 Pura Belpré Author Award, and which was published in 2023 as a graphic novel illustrated by Mel Valentine Vargas; Burn Baby Burn, which was long-listed for the National Book Award; and The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind.

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Merci Suárez Changes Gears
  • Medina, Meg (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 368 Pages – 04/07/2020 (Publication Date) – Candlewick (Publisher)

She is also the author of picture books No More Señora Mimí No más Señora Mimí, Evelyn Del Rey Is Moving Away Evelyn del Rey se muda, illustrated by Sonia Sánchez, Jumpstart’s 2020 Read for the Record selection; Mango, Abuela, and Me, illustrated by Angela Dominguez, which was a Pura Belpré Author Award Honor Book; and Tía Isa Wants a Car, illustrated by Claudio Muñoz, which won the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award; and biographies for young readers She Persisted: Sonia Sotomayor and She Persisted: Pura Belpré, the latter with Marilisa Jiménez García. The daughter of Cuban immigrants, she grew up in Queens, New York, and now lives in Richmond, Virginia.

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No More Señora Mimí
  • Hardcover Book
  • Medina, Meg (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 32 Pages – 09/03/2024 (Publication Date) – Candlewick (Publisher)
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Merci Suárez Changes Gears
  • Medina, Meg (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 368 Pages – 04/07/2020 (Publication Date) – Candlewick (Publisher)
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Mango, Abuela, and Me
  • Medina, Meg (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 32 Pages – 10/03/2017 (Publication Date) – Candlewick (Publisher)
Evelyn Del Rey Is Moving Away
  • Medina, Meg (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 32 Pages – 04/18/2023 (Publication Date) – Candlewick (Publisher)
Graciela in the Abyss
  • Hardcover Book
  • Medina, Meg (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 256 Pages – 07/01/2025 (Publication Date) – Candlewick (Publisher)
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Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
  • Medina, Meg (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 272 Pages – 08/26/2014 (Publication Date) – Candlewick (Publisher)
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Tia Isa Wants a Car
  • Medina, Meg (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 32 Pages – 02/23/2016 (Publication Date) – Candlewick (Publisher)
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Burn Baby Burn
  • Medina, Meg (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 320 Pages – 03/27/2018 (Publication Date) – Candlewick (Publisher)
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Mango, Abuela y yo (Spanish Edition)
  • Medina, Meg (Author)
  • Spanish (Publication Language)
  • 32 Pages – 08/25/2015 (Publication Date) – Candlewick (Publisher)
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