Middle-grade novel · Fiction
Merci Suárez Changes Gears
Meg Medina
About the book
Sixth-grader Merci navigates a private school as a scholarship student while her grandfather's memory begins to change.
Reading notes
A funny and tender family story about growing up and change.
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Recognition
- Newbery Medal (2019)
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Book details
- Author
- Meg Medina
- First published
- 2018
- Suggested ages
- Ages 9–12 (editorial estimate — children vary)
- Reading mode
- Independent reader
- Topics
- family, school, hispanic heritage
- Edition shown
- ISBN 9780763690496 · Candlewick Press, 2018 · Hardcover
- Catalog record
- Open Library work record · edition record
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