TY - BOOK AU - Medina,Meg TI - Merci Suárez changes gears SN - 076369049X AV - PZ7 .M512765 Me 2018 PY - 2018/// CY - Somerville, Massachusetts PB - Candlewick Press KW - Girls KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Middle school students KW - Middle schools KW - Sixth grade (Education) KW - Schools KW - Grandfathers KW - Grandparent and child KW - Jealousy KW - Florida KW - Novels KW - lcgft KW - Domestic fiction KW - Multicultural fiction KW - local KW - Contemporary realistic fiction N1 - A Junior Library Guild selection; 009-012; 4-7 N2 - 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 ER -