
Merci Suárez Changes Gears
by Meg Medina- Grades: 4 - 7
- Ages: 10 - 13
- Format: Hardcover Book
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Award:
Newbery Medal
Short Summary
Mean girls, crushes, and challenges at home mean lots of middle school drama for Merci in this wise and funny coming-of-age novel.
Good For:
Award-Winning Author, Relatable Heroine, Multigenerational Cast of Characters, Celebrating Hispanic Family Culture
Topics and Themes:
Family and Friendship, Middle School Mix-Ups and Mistakes, Scholarship Students, Community Service, Romance, Jealousy, Managing Emotions, Self-Confidence
Mean girls, crushes, and challenges at home mean lots of middle school drama for Merci in this wise and funny coming-of-age novel.
Good For:
Award-Winning Author, Relatable Heroine, Multigenerational Cast of Characters, Celebrating Hispanic Family Culture
Topics and Themes:
Family and Friendship, Middle School Mix-Ups and Mistakes, Scholarship Students, Community Service, Romance, Jealousy, Managing Emotions, Self-Confidence
Product Details
https://clubs.scholastic.com/merci-su%C3%A1rez-changes-gears/9780763690496-rco-us.htmlSummary
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.
In a coming-of-age tale full of humor and wisdom, award-winning author Meg Medina gets to the heart of the confusion and constant change that defines middle school—and the steadfast connection that defines family.
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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.
In a coming-of-age tale full of humor and wisdom, award-winning author Meg Medina gets to the heart of the confusion and constant change that defines middle school—and the steadfast connection that defines family.
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Product Details
- Grades: 4 - 7
- Ages: 10 - 13
- Product Type: Book
- Page Count: 368 pages
- Dimensions: 5 1/2" x 7 3/4"
- Language: English
- Subject & Themes: 6th Grade, Middle School, Hispanic & Latine, Grandparents, Depression & Mental Illness, Family Life, Economics & Finance, Coming of Age
- Genre: Realistic Fiction
- ISBN 13: 978-0-763-69049-6