Yamile Saied Méndez
Yamile Saied Méndez has written at least 24 books. Their most popular book is Furia with 51 saves with an average rating of 4.43⭐.
Author Bio
Yamile (sha-MEE-lay) Saied Méndez is the author of many books for young readers and adults, including Furia, a Reese’s YA Book Club selection and the 2021 Inaugural Pura Belpré Young Adult Gold Medalist. Her books have received many accolades such as the Junior Library Guild Gold Standard, Whitney Award, Cybils Award, Américas Award, Bank Street Spanish Language Book Awards, among others.
They have also been featured in the Best of Year lists of the New York City Public Library Library, Salt Lake Public Library Library, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly and those of many states’.
She was born and raised in Rosario, Argentina, but has lived most of her life in a lovely valley surrounded by mountains in Utah. An inaugural Walter Dean Myers Grant recipient, she’s also a graduate of Voices of Our Nations (VONA) and the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA Writing for Children’s and Young Adult program. Yamile is also a founding member of Las Musas, the first collective of women and nonbinary Latine authors. She taught herself English with a Spanish/English dictionary, and now has been faculty at TinHouse Workshop and a keynote speaker at The Vermont College of Fine Arts.
 Furia
| 4.43 | 15 reads | |
 Reclaim the Stars
| 3.4 | 7 reads | |
 Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories
| 3.33 | 6 reads | |
 The Grimoire of Grave Fates
| 3 | 10 reads | |
 Twice a Quinceañera
| 3.42 | 6 reads | |
 Game On: 15 Stories of Wins, Losses, and Everything in Between
| 2 | 2 reads | |
 Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance
| 4.5 | 5 reads | |
 Rural Voices: 15 Authors Challenge Assumptions About Small-Town America
| 3.5 | 3 reads | |
 Come On In | 3.25 | 4 reads | |
 Love of My Lives
| 4 | 1 read | |
 House Party
| 5 | 2 reads | |
 Firsts and Lasts: 16 Stories from Our World and Beyond
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Out of Our League: 16 Stories of Girls in Sports
| 3.5 | 1 read | |
 Can't Be Tamed
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Where Are You From?
| 0 | 3 reads | |
 What Will You Be?
| 5 | 3 reads | |
 Friends Like These
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Calling the Moon: 16 Period Stories from BIPOC Authors | 0 | 0 reads | |
 The Beautiful Game
| 0 | 1 read | |
 On These Magic Shores
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Shaking Up the House
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Where There's Smoke
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 All Roads Lead to Rome
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 No Place Like Home
| 0 | 0 reads |