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Merci Suárez changes gears / Meg Medina.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2020.; �2018Edition: 1st U.S. pbk. edDescription: 355 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781536212587
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • [Fic] 23
Awards:
  • Newbery Medal/Honor, 2019
Summary: "Merci Su�arez 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."--Provided by publisher.
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School Library Journal starred, July 2018

Booklist starred, June 2015

Horn Book Starred, September 2018

Pub Weekly, August 2018

Kirkus Starred, July 2018

New York Times, September 2018

Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), September 2018

Library Media Connection, October 2018

"Merci Su�arez 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."--Provided by publisher.

3-6 Follett School Solutions.

Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.6 10.0 196915. BR

Newbery Medal/Honor, 2019