**Meg Medina *is a former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and the author of the Newbery Medal winner and Kirkus Prize finalist Merci Suárez Changes Gears , as well as its sequels, Merci Suárez Can't Dance and Merci Suárez Plays It Cool. She is the author of the young adult novels B...

**Meg Medina *is a former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and the author of the Newbery Medal winner and Kirkus Prize finalist Merci Suárez Changes Gears , as well as its sequels, Merci Suárez Can't Dance and Merci Suárez Plays It Cool. She is the author of the young adult novels Burn Baby Burn, which was long-listed for the National Book Award, short-listed for the Kirkus Prize, and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, winner of a Pura Belpré Author Award; and The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind, a Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year. Her picture books include * No More Señora Mimí, illustrated by Brittney Cicchese; Evelyn Del Rey Is Moving Away, illustrated by Sonia Sánchez; Mango, Abuela, and Me, illustrated by Angela Dominguez, which was both a Pura Belpré Author and Illustrator Award Honor Book; and Tía Isa Wants a Car, illustrated by Claudio Muñoz, which won the Ezra Jack Keats Writer Award. The daughter of Cuban immigrants, Meg Medina lives in Richmond, Virginia.