Merci Suárez changes gears, Meg Medina
Type
Label
Merci Suárez changes gears, Meg Medina
Language
eng
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
resource.interestAgeLevel
009-012
resource.interestGradeLevel
4-7
Literary Form
novels
Main title
Merci Suárez changes gears
Oclc number
1050163478
Responsibility statement
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
Target audience
pre adolescent
Classification
Creator
Subject
- Sixth grade (Education) -- Juvenile fiction
- Schools -- Fiction
- Juvenile works
- Schools
- Newbery Medal
- Domestic fiction
- Girls -- Juvenile fiction
- Novels
- Grandfathers -- Juvenile fiction
- Girls
- Middle schools
- Sixth grade (Education)
- Fiction
- Grandparent and child -- Fiction
- School stories
- Grandparent-grandchild relationship -- Fiction
- Jealousy -- Juvenile fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION + People & Places -- United States -- Hispanic & Latino
- Middle school students -- Juvenile fiction
- Grandfathers -- Fiction
- Grandfathers
- Grandparent and child -- Juvenile fiction
- Middle schools -- Juvenile fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION + Social Themes + Friendship
- Schools -- Juvenile fiction
- Jealousy
- Florida -- Juvenile fiction
- Middle school students
- Jealousy -- Fiction
- Middle schools -- Fiction
- Florida
- JUVENILE FICTION + Family + Multigenerational
- Grandparent and child
Content
Author
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- Classification1
- Creator1
- Genre5
- Subject33
- Sixth grade (Education) -- Juvenile fiction
- Schools -- Fiction
- Juvenile works
- Schools
- Newbery Medal
- Domestic fiction
- Girls -- Juvenile fiction
- Novels
- Grandfathers -- Juvenile fiction
- Girls
- Middle schools
- Sixth grade (Education)
- Fiction
- Grandparent and child -- Fiction
- School stories
- Grandparent-grandchild relationship -- Fiction
- Jealousy -- Juvenile fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION + People & Places -- United States -- Hispanic & Latino
- Middle school students -- Juvenile fiction
- Grandfathers -- Fiction
- Grandfathers
- Grandparent and child -- Juvenile fiction
- Middle schools -- Juvenile fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION + Social Themes + Friendship
- Schools -- Juvenile fiction
- Jealousy
- Florida -- Juvenile fiction
- Middle school students
- Jealousy -- Fiction
- Middle schools -- Fiction
- Florida
- JUVENILE FICTION + Family + Multigenerational
- Grandparent and child
- Content1
- Author1
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