Merci Suárez changes gears
Medina, Meg
creator
text
Novels.
Domestic fiction.
Multicultural fiction.
Contemporary realistic fiction.
mau
2018
2018
First U.S. edition.
monographic
eng
355 pages ; 21 cm.
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.
juvenile
Meg Medina.
A Junior Library Guild selection.
Newbery Medal, 2019
n-us-fl
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
Florida
Juvenile fiction
Middle schools
Grandfathers
Grandparent and child
Jealousy
Schools
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