Merci Suarez changes gears

By Meg Medina

Subjects: Newbery Medal, Juvenile fiction, Girls, Grandparent and child, Middle schools, Fiction, Families, Grandfathers, Jealousy, Middle school students, Sixth grade (Education), award:Newbery_award, Multigenerational, Coming of age, Schools

Description: 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.