Yamile Saied Méndez has written at least 19 books. Their most popular book is Furia with 30 saves with an average rating of 4.44⭐.
They are best known for writing in the genres Young Adult, Young Adult Fiction, and LGBTQ. Their next book, The Beautiful Game, is scheduled for release on 1/1/2025.
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.
2020 • 30 Readers • 368 pages • 4.4
2022 • 23 Readers • 417 pages • 3
2022 • 20 Readers • 369 pages • 3
2022 • 14 Readers • 322 pages • 3.5
2019 • 7 Readers • 206 pages • 4.3
2020 • 7 Readers • 315 pages • 3.3
2022 • 5 Readers
2024 • 4 Readers • 336 pages • 3.5
2023 • 3 Readers • 273 pages
2 Readers
2022 • 1 Reader • 368 pages
2023 • 1 Reader • 368 pages
Available January 1, 2025 • 1 Reader
2019 • 1 Reader • 40 pages
2021 • 1 Reader • 35 pages