TY  - BOOK
AU  - Medina,Meg
TI  - Merci Su�arez changes gears
T2  - Merci Su�arez
SN  - 9780763690496
U1  - F MED 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Somerville, Massachusetts
PB  - Candlewick Press
KW  - Girls
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Middle school students
KW  - Middle schools
KW  - Schools
KW  - Grandfathers
KW  - Grandparent and child
KW  - Jealousy
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Florida
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - School Library Journal starred, July 2018; Booklist starred, June 2015; Horn Book Starred, September 2018; Pub Weekly, August 2018; Kirkus Starred, July 2018; Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), September 2018; 6.3; 3-6; 700L; Lexile; V; Fountas
N2  - Merci Su�arez 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. 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
ER  -