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Merci Suárez changes gears / Meg Medina.

Summary:

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780763690496
ISBN: 076369049X
Physical Description: 355 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2018.
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:	009-012. 4-7. 700L Lexile.
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader MG 4.6 10.0.
Awards Note:	A Junior Library Guild selection ALSC Notable Children's Book, 2019 CSMCL Best Books, 2018 Horn Book Fanfare List, 2018 Kirkus Prize Finalist for Young Readers' Literature, 2018 NCTE Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children Honor, 2019 Newbery Medal, 2019 Publisher's Weekly Best Middle Grade Book, 2018 School Library Journal's Best Books, 2018