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From: Meg Medina <meg6000_at_aol.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 10:48:23 -0400
Sorry - I forgot to answer two other questions!
Piddy’s spiral seemed so plausible to me, especially against the backdrop of the relentless, on-line piece as well. I wrote the story as I experience bullying years ago and then layered in the very modern instruments of torture (i-phones, youtube.) To me, the greatest cost of bullying is the loss of your sense of self and value. Without that, kids early do get completely lost and off-course.
Regarding the brutality: I was visiting my mother in law who still lived in Queens at the time. An old friend had come over for an afternoon coffee, and he proceeded to describe a fight he’d witnessed on the Number 7 train where a group of kids jumped a girl and left her topless on the train platform. It was an image that I couldn’t shake, mostly because it seemed to me that the goal was total humiliation and domination. Unfortunately, in my research, I also spent time watching YouTube videos of school fights, etc. (Yes, these sites exist.) It was, for me, a heartbreaking experience to see young people work out their despair on each other in this way. I put the scene in the novel because it reflects what is happening and because young people deserve books that tell the the truth about what they live every day.
Meg Medina www.megmedina.com www.girlsofsummerlist.wordpress.com twitter.com/Meg_Medina
Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass (Candlewick Press; Winner 2014 Pura Belpré Award; 2013 CYBILS Award in Fiction; Internat’l Latino Children’s Book Award) The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind (Candlewick Press) Tía Isa Wants a Car (Candlewick Press; Winner 2012 Ezra Jack Keats Award) Milagros: Girl From Away (now available as an Amazon e-book)
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Received on Wed 30 Jul 2014 09:48:42 AM CDT
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 10:48:23 -0400
Sorry - I forgot to answer two other questions!
Piddy’s spiral seemed so plausible to me, especially against the backdrop of the relentless, on-line piece as well. I wrote the story as I experience bullying years ago and then layered in the very modern instruments of torture (i-phones, youtube.) To me, the greatest cost of bullying is the loss of your sense of self and value. Without that, kids early do get completely lost and off-course.
Regarding the brutality: I was visiting my mother in law who still lived in Queens at the time. An old friend had come over for an afternoon coffee, and he proceeded to describe a fight he’d witnessed on the Number 7 train where a group of kids jumped a girl and left her topless on the train platform. It was an image that I couldn’t shake, mostly because it seemed to me that the goal was total humiliation and domination. Unfortunately, in my research, I also spent time watching YouTube videos of school fights, etc. (Yes, these sites exist.) It was, for me, a heartbreaking experience to see young people work out their despair on each other in this way. I put the scene in the novel because it reflects what is happening and because young people deserve books that tell the the truth about what they live every day.
Meg Medina www.megmedina.com www.girlsofsummerlist.wordpress.com twitter.com/Meg_Medina
Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass (Candlewick Press; Winner 2014 Pura Belpré Award; 2013 CYBILS Award in Fiction; Internat’l Latino Children’s Book Award) The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind (Candlewick Press) Tía Isa Wants a Car (Candlewick Press; Winner 2012 Ezra Jack Keats Award) Milagros: Girl From Away (now available as an Amazon e-book)
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