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Merci Suárez Books

In order from Merci Suárez Changes Gears to Merci Suárez Plays It Cool
Merci Suárez Changes Gears
Merci Suárez Can't Dance
Merci Suárez Plays It Cool
Merci Suárez Changes Gears
Merci Suárez Can't Dance
chapter • 368 Pages
Merci Suárez Changes Gears
#1 in Series
Book #1

Merci Suárez Changes Gears

Written by Meg Medina
9 - 12
Reading age
368
Page count
192
Words per page
Sep 11, 2018
Publication date
Hardcover
$16.99
$17.97

Summary

Thoughtful, strong-willed sixth-grader Merci Suarez navigates difficult changes with friends, family, and everyone in between in a resonant new novel from Meg Medina. Merci Suarez 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.

Merci Suárez Series

Published from 2018 - 2022
3 books
chapter • 368 Pages
Merci Suárez Changes Gears
Hardcover
$16.99$17.97
chapter • 384 Pages
Merci Suárez Can't Dance
#2 in Series
Hardcover
$18.99$17.97
chapter • 352 Pages
Merci Suárez Plays It Cool
#3 in Series
Hardcover
$18.99$17.97
Year#TitlePages
20181Merci Suárez Changes Gears368
20212Merci Suárez Can't Dance384
20223Merci Suárez Plays It Cool352

The Creative Behind the Books

    Author
    Meg Medina

    Meg Medina is the author of the Newbery Medal-winning book Merci Suárez Changes Gears, which was also a 2018 Kirkus Prize finalist. Her young adult novels include Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, which won the 2014 Pura Belpré Author Award; Burn Baby Burn, which was long-listed for the National Book Award; and The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind. She is also the author of picture books Mango, Abuela, and Me, illustrated by Angela Dominguez, which was a Pura Belpré Author Award Honor Book, and Tía Isa Wants a Car, illustrated by Claudio Muñoz, which won the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award. The daughter of Cuban immigrants, she grew up in Queens, New York, and now lives in Richmond, Virginia.

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