Merci Suárez changes gears /
Medina, Meg,
Merci Suárez changes gears / Meg Medina. - First U.S. edition. - 355 pages ; 21 cm.
A Junior Library Guild selection.
Merci Suárez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has never been like the other kids at her private school in Florida, because she and her older brother, Roli, are scholarship students. They don't have a big house or a fancy boat, and they have to do extra community service to make up for their free tuition. So when bossy Edna Santos sets her sights on the new boy who happens to be Merci's school-assigned Sunshine Buddy, Merci becomes the target of Edna's jealousy. Things aren't going well at home, either: Merci's grandfather and most trusted ally, Lolo, has been acting strangely lately -- forgetting important things, falling from his bike, and getting angry over nothing. No one in her family will tell Merci what's going on, so she's left to her own worries, while also feeling all on her own at school.
009-012. 4-7.
Newbery Medal, 2019
076369049X 9780763690496
Girls--Juvenile fiction.
Middle school students--Juvenile fiction.
Middle schools--Juvenile fiction.
Sixth grade (Education)--Juvenile fiction.
Schools--Juvenile fiction.
Grandfathers--Juvenile fiction.
Grandparent and child--Juvenile fiction.
Jealousy--Juvenile fiction.
Middle schools.
Grandfathers.
Grandparent and child.
Jealousy.
Schools.
Florida--Juvenile fiction.
Novels.
Domestic fiction.
Multicultural fiction.
Contemporary realistic fiction.
PZ7 .M512765 / Me 2018
Merci Suárez changes gears / Meg Medina. - First U.S. edition. - 355 pages ; 21 cm.
A Junior Library Guild selection.
Merci Suárez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has never been like the other kids at her private school in Florida, because she and her older brother, Roli, are scholarship students. They don't have a big house or a fancy boat, and they have to do extra community service to make up for their free tuition. So when bossy Edna Santos sets her sights on the new boy who happens to be Merci's school-assigned Sunshine Buddy, Merci becomes the target of Edna's jealousy. Things aren't going well at home, either: Merci's grandfather and most trusted ally, Lolo, has been acting strangely lately -- forgetting important things, falling from his bike, and getting angry over nothing. No one in her family will tell Merci what's going on, so she's left to her own worries, while also feeling all on her own at school.
009-012. 4-7.
Newbery Medal, 2019
076369049X 9780763690496
Girls--Juvenile fiction.
Middle school students--Juvenile fiction.
Middle schools--Juvenile fiction.
Sixth grade (Education)--Juvenile fiction.
Schools--Juvenile fiction.
Grandfathers--Juvenile fiction.
Grandparent and child--Juvenile fiction.
Jealousy--Juvenile fiction.
Middle schools.
Grandfathers.
Grandparent and child.
Jealousy.
Schools.
Florida--Juvenile fiction.
Novels.
Domestic fiction.
Multicultural fiction.
Contemporary realistic fiction.
PZ7 .M512765 / Me 2018