Does this mean they’re friends? Merci wants to play it cool, but with Edna always in her business, it’s only a matter of time before Merci has to decide where her loyalty stands. But then Avery starts talking to Merci more, and not just as a teammate.
Merci has always been fine with not being one of the popular kids like Avery Sanders, who will probably be the soccer captain and is always traveling to fun places and buying new clothes. It’s a year filled with more responsibility and independence, but also with opportunities to reinvent herself. At home, it means more chores and keeping an eye on Lolo as his health worsens.
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.For Merci Suárez, eighth grade means a new haircut, nighttime football games, and an out-of-town overnight field trip. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Merci Suárez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different.
0 kommentar(er)
